Word: drownings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reid song, are content to be sitting on their porch and "sippin' some wine/ from my coffee cup." That is, if they're drinking at all. In the video Travis Tritt made last year for The Whiskey Ain't Workin', the character he plays pointedly refuses to drown his sorrows in alcohol...
Fortunately, Miss Julie's profundity does not drown the play. Director Hans Canosa intersperses humor between the drama to lighten the audience's mood. The play within the play (A Midsummer's Night Dream) that Miss Julie's servants stage somehow culminates in an entertaining fruit fight (complements of Harvard University Dining Services...
...transit system. In mid-December the commission voted 7 to 4 to award $122 million to Sumitomo for the job. But that was before President Bush made his ill-starred trip to Tokyo to wrest trade concessions from the Japanese and a shrill chorus shouting "Buy America" began to drown out all others on the L.A. commission. "No loyal American would hand over that contract to the Japanese," said Nate Holden, an L.A. city councilor. Last week the commission yanked the contract back from Sumitomo in a bald effort to save American jobs, and in a move almost certain...
...THOUGHT YOU were safe. Education is supposed to be one of those recession-proof industries like McDonald's and Hallmark Cards. You could never imagine one of them closing their doors. When things get really bad, that's when you need to drown your sorrows in a 49 cent burger and read a Shoebox Greeting from somebody who loves you--like your Mom, perhaps, who won't bug you about not being able to find a job or a summer internship...
...least then we'll be able to drown our sorrows in some nicely mixed drinks...