Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime swelled in some neighborhoods, our correspondents and photographers moved in to follow the battle between police and looters. Observed Correspondent Mary Cronin: "There was a carnival atmosphere. Downtown they were getting drunk and directing traffic. Uptown they were getting drunk and shopping without money." Said Reporter-Researcher Paul Witteman, who covered the bloody scene in Brooklyn: "It was a tragedy...
...stresses in a variety of accents and many a broad gesture. He provides energy in what would otherwise be purely expository scenes, but he is rather hard on any scenery or actors who happen to get in his way. Over a long haul, he is also wearying - like a drunk at a party who refuses to shut...
...added that the Brattle Cinema once had Union proejctionists, but the management had trouble with employees "showing up to work drunk." Newby said the Brattle has not employed union members in 25 years...
...same bed, touching, panting, writhing...sex! Our host's good fortune seemed beyond bounds. The baby's cries seemed hardly noticeable, at least no more so than the trolley cars which clanged above our heads, outside. Close to midnight, by which time our host and we had drunk silly quantities of wine, his wife appeared in the doorway of what must have been the bedroom, wearing an old flannel bathrobe. "Are you coming to bed soon?" she asked. Her husband shrugged himself out of his chair, his shirt hanging loosely from his trousers, purple stains of zinfandel on all three...
...fashioned baseball writing concentrated on such issues. Was the manager a sour drunk? Was the superslugger a tightwad? No matter. Write only about the games. Emotion, indeed humanity, was irrelevant. You can read a season of sports pages from 1951 without learning anything of the interplay between the fading patriarch (DiMaggio) and the bucolic Wunderkind (Mantle...