Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing for the Dunkirk evacuation 20 years ago, says he finished off a bawtla whisky on the way 'ome. "The wife said, 'Are you tired or drunk?' I said, 'Both...
...fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard of a man and the breasts of a woman. One of the rarest pieces is an oil dish from the Fiji Islands: it looks like a modern sculpture of a punch-drunk goon...
Terry F. Lenzner, 1960 captain, introduced his senior teammates and singled out Ravenel, who received a standing ovation from the gathering. Lenzner's successor, Alex W. Hart, termed the season "nothing to get drunk over." He moved on to what he called "a pleasanter topic," said of next season "on paper we don't have it," but added, "There is no reason why we can't be up top with the rest of them...
...bootlegger? With the evidence gradually falling into place, the police lured Holzapfel into a trap last October. In a Titusville motel room, two of his friends met the ex-convict, poured him several drinks and told him that Peel had hired one of them to kill him. Shaken and drunk, Holzapfel spilled out a gruesome story, which the "friends"-both undercover agents for the police-were careful to record on tape...
...Ashcan show* that marked the first revolt against the formal nudes and innocuous landscapes that dominated turn-of-the-century U.S. art. Outraged by his fantasy, critics inveighed against Prendergast's paintings as "whirling arabesques that tax the eye." "unadulterated slop," and "the product of much cider drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle that his paintings almost began to look as if they had been woven. But for all their technical innovations, his works con tinued...