Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been there a few minutes when I realized that the guy over at the right was already drunk, and dangerously close to exposing himself. The announcer up front was saying. "Now we're going to show...
...they took the chance of making a run for it. Spotted by an airplane and a helicopter hovering overhead, they were soon ticketed by other patrol cars lurking on access roads. Normally, a dozen accidents take place on a big weekend, but only one occurred during the experiment: a drunk mistook a drainage ditch for an exit ramp...
...disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because he's not too bright and wants to prosper. Sir Epicure Mammon (Spito Veloudos) has always been the character in the play I most identify with (I was typecast to play him in a high-school production), Veloudos is drunk with his own words, his ecstatic visions of gluttony. All his appetites--gustatory and sexual--are to be fulfilled by the Philosopher's Stone, but even these pleasure, poignantly, pull after a while. All he can think of to do with the phoenix once captured...
...your life when you have to look after yourself." With that, Parent and his wife Carol took off for a cruise. In Martinique, he got a call informing him the Flyers had taken him back. His career had come full circle and Parent celebrated in style. "I was drunk for six days," he says. "The ocean was calm but the boat kept rocking...
...being offered as revelation ("I perceive now that my unmarried teachers at Yale were probably less chaste than the rest of us.") And there are hints at what must be buried wells of real and sincere pain, but inevitably appear as trite, heart-on-sleeve banalities ("How many friends, drunk and sober, I must have failed in those days by being in the presence of their anguish and yet deaf and blind...