Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picture of the impeccable Jeeves devolving into Wooster or a starched headmistress is, in itself, enough to supply a right humorous air to the scene. The second act is more of this good stuff: a friendly poke at beastly aunts, a discourse on the proper waistcoat, and a drunken tirade shouted by a lovesick newt-fancier at a public school awards ceremony. The whole thing comes to a good old-fashioned musical finish with a bit of tap-dance and "Sonny...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...