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...Oklahoma is OK Committee charged that legalizing saloons would lead to increased consumption and would boost the state's highway fatalities from about 1000 in 1983 to as many as 1500 or 1600 because of increased drunken driving...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Oking Saloons | 9/25/1984 | See Source »

...know, that catalogued for 423 pages the worse and the worst of Belushi's life In defending his own work, Bob Woodward becomes a sort of transplanted Sgt. Joe Friday, interested only in the facts ma'am, rattling off his list of sources and interviews like a boasting drunken fraternity brother counting his collegiate conquests...

Author: By Clark J. Freshmen, | Title: The Price of Arrogance | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

...Tent City did not allow any alcohol in the area, to make sure the press did not sensationalize the protest as a bunch of drunken revelers. But the first Republican convention official I dealt with to get my press credentials was drinking a beer at 11 a.m. while a worker behind him was refilling the beer freezer. The beer of course, was COORS, produced by the right-wing, union-busting, Reagan buddy: Joseph Coors...

Author: By Mark E. Fineberg, | Title: Unconventional Warfare | 9/19/1984 | See Source »

...worse, raise unemployment" and "make unilateral and unwise concessions to the Soviet Union." In fact, they were so eager to be roused that they would not allow Reagan to complete one of his punch lines. Saying that he was tempted to compare Democratic spending habits to those of a drunken sailor, Reagan said, "But that would be unfair to drunken sailors." The audience erupted in laughter before he added, "Because the sailors are spending their own money." Another interruption occurred when Reagan paraphrased Will Rogers and accused the Democrats of never meeting "a tax they didn't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting Out to Whomp 'Em | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...nonfiction novel. As much a member of the glitterati as the literati, Capote was a gossipy, party-loving sybarite with a gift for self-promotion and TV talk-show repartee. In recent years, however, his productivity faltered and he struggled-as frequent news reports about his hospitalizations and drunken-driving arrests gave witness-with an addiction to drugs and alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 3, 1984 | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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