Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rates raised from $18,000 to $58,000 a year, a strong incentive not to serve drunks. In New Jersey, homeowners are worrying about suits from drunk-driving accidents. The state supreme court ruled last year that social hosts can be held liable for damage done by their drunken guests...
...when the prize was bequested--women and minorities are among the population, and many more varieties of literature are read and taught. Pamela's passage underlined this change: the Baldwin selection was an account of the death of a young Black boy run over by a car full of drunken white men, and how this death affected the boy's family, and the next generation, and their feelings about white men. The judges' recognition of more than traditional material and contestants (I include the selection from Ursula LeGuin and the unusual performance of Eliot) deserves The Crimson's attention, beyond...
Although street riots like the scene in Detroit following the Tiger's triumph in the World Series won't be with us again for months, the problem of the drunken mob exists nonetheless...
...week-long foreplay, foreplay, the loud ubiquitous hoopla perfected by Kentuckians years before the networks even started researching it. Barbecaes, races of everything from riverboats to hot-air balloons, beauty contests, and constant parties follow one another with dizzying speed and profusion. By the time the frazzled and usually drunken Derbygoer makes it to the Big Event itself (which comes, by the way, after a full slate of seven or eight races) he mostly feels a vague desire simply to get it over with, although he will be the first to deny it. As genuine and visceral as the excitement...
...film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims, "I am the one who is," leading Joseph, behind the wheel of the family car, to reply, "Shut up and get in." For good measure, Mary, played by Myriem Roussel, has several nude scenes. Godard, 54, has replied...