Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going straight-to-video. Consequently, we are hardly interested in witnessing its production let alone the repetitive takes of boring scenes. The script, too, is dismal. When not rummaging through his chest of platitudes and overused analogies, writer Nicholas St. John creates his own Iudicrous dialogue. In a drunken rage, Burn's husband-from-hell course, of all things, "Consumerism!" One cannot forget, as well, the inexplicably crass run of tampon metaphors...
Plutarch as spin doctor: that was not drunken lust in Antony's eye, but, ahem, dynastic vision...
...from the Navy, Admiral Frank Kelso last week sought to overhaul his image. The Navy's top officer claimed that during his nearly four years at the helm, he had helped rid the service of its tolerance for abusive attitudes toward women. If anyone treats women as did the drunken, groping aviators at the Tailhook convention 2 1/2 years ago, Kelso blustered at a press conference, "they're not going to be in this man's Navy...
...roommates suck. I keep a stash of quarters which I use for my laundry, and dammit, they swipe then and use them for "Quarters"! Instead of the soothing hum of the Maytag washing machine, I am forced to listen to the drunken strains of "Down in one, down in one, down in one..." This is more than just simple thievery. It is a matter of social stigmatization. For not only am I a floater, I am a floater with stinky socks, Help me. Miffed and Malodorous in Mather...
...carnage, using mannequins, professional actors to portray the wounded and old corpses provided by obliging Croat forces, who would have had to smuggle them into Sarajevo through Serb lines. Jovan Zametica, spokesman for the self-described Bosnian Serb government, remarks, "If NATO aircraft attack, we'll take them out." Drunken Serb soldiers on a hillside south of the capital mock the NATO threat. Bosnian troops are just down the hill, they say, and "if they get us, they're going to get them...