Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell them, which is more or less true, but no one would listen. "I betcha got them Commie priests up there, the ones that run around tryin' to get themselves married on the sly. And the Cardinal--why, he's just a Portugee, he don't even count," the drunk hollered...
...what did you want to go and do that for? What do they teach you there? I hear it's all a bunch of rich boobs runnin' around goin' to parties and gettin' drunk all the time. Are you all Irish?" And then the bone-cruncher: "When was the last time you went to Mass...
...Paco gave in all the way, then. He started to develop a taste for good liquor when before he had never drunk anything except tequila, and he bought an ascot and stopped putting tabasco sauce on everything he ate for dinner. He took down all pictures of Chavez and the Boycott Gallo posters from his wall, but he left up the big black eagle because it impressed all the rich preppie women he started bringing back to his room. He kept telling hemself he didn't have to worry about selling out the movement, because the people...
...most dangerous intersection in Cambridge is not the Harvard Sq. vortex, but the corners of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Sts., where I have suffered through my most humiliating moments. It is there that a decaying drunk collapsed on me as he wheeled out of the Rix drugstore, sending us both crashing to the pavement. As I stood him up, he swooped down again, once again taking me with him. I finally propped him up against the wall--he may be there, still...
...party progressed people finally became drunk, and their clothes began to look rumpled. People laughed easier and danced more. Men and women began having long conversations, unlike the brief exchanges that had characterized the beginning of the party. The alcohol broke down some of the tension of the party's start, some of the pressure to know many people and talk to many people. Circulation slowed...