Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bribe the Petersburg dandy, and they wear the beards and traditional dress that Peter the Great had hoped to stamp out some centuries before. The willingness of a mother and a daughter to compete with each other for his charms and the stereotyping of Russian characters--ranging from drunken clerks to free thinking judges--reinforces...
...most obvious alteration in Capobianco's new production is the elimination of the brief epilogue in which Hoffmann is found in a drunken stupor, overwhelmed by his failures. Instead, the final curtain goes to the triumphant Dr. Miracle, who has just caused the poor Antonia to sing herself to death. In one of the chanciest bits of operatic stagecraft seen in New York in years, Dr. Miracle miraculously pops up on the outer rail of the orchestra pit, towers spectacularly over the conductor, and laughs his final laugh of evil victory...
Although Hitler tried to portray his early years as serene, Langer postulated from Hitler's character and writings that his father must have been a drunken, menacing brute. (Interviews in the 1950s with neighbors of the Hitler family substantiated this professional hunch, Historian Waite reports.) Because children view the universe in the light of their home experience, Hitler probably saw the whole world as "extremely dangerous, uncertain and unjust." This was the origin of his sense of powerlessness...
...year-old girl, and I feel that for the most part the American teen-ager is being misrepresented as a drunken, high, oversexed person with Communistic ideas. What about printing something a little bit more in our favor...
...mass expulsion ordered by Uganda's dictator. President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin. He in turn was becoming increasingly frenetic, creating nine new provinces on one day, firing 29 of the country's top police officers on another. Most of the army remained under control, but drunken soldiers went on rampages in the provinces. About a dozen European and American tourists were beaten, and Pierre Shostal, the newly appointed U.S. deputy chief of mission in Rwanda, and his wife were roughed up and threatened as they crossed the border on their way to their new post...