Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mean that if it had been any better, you wouldn't have given it to me," the friend replied. "And if it had been any worse, I couldn't have drunk...
...computer programmers, community college girls, and, being that it's New York, high school seniors. It's a bar whose juke box is evenly split between Chicago and Grand Funk. (Once, one Friday night, after I learned that the way to sidestep the dollar bottled beers is to be drunk before you leave the house, I waded through Squire's to the juke box, and in a real fit of ill-will, viciously punched Van Morrison's Wild Night. When it came on, there was silence...
...aging (she is 32), Momma is left with $30,000 in lOUs from G.I.s and a flood of bittersweet memories. "I love Special Forces men. They are all crazy and never care about tomorrow. They go into field and maybe die. I stay here and get drunk and maybe...
...Kinks. The Kinks used to play very bad tours. Not an occasional crummy concert, but whole tours, rotten in their ntirety. This was because they'd all get drunk and beat each other up onstage. Which was particularly true of the brothers Davies. Ray, older and larger, could be relied upon to smack his brother, Dave, younger and smaller, around numerous stages in equally numerous dank halls across America. No more. Ray has coupled his social insights with his instinctive love of vaudeville as it appeared in English music halls, and transformed his band of drunken louts into a drunken...
...19th century. Blanche practices a tacky spiritualism, but Canning never quite debunks her ghosts. A spirit world flickers on the edges of the plot. The precise rationalism of government investigators softly edges toward the ambiguous realm of séances and contacts with the dead, like a drunk motorist drifting off the road. The total effect is eerily absorbing. At the end, Canning's story is a bit tricky and brutal, but it is somehow charming all the same, and even persuasively ominous...