Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This presence of the antique, which was an obsessive and recurrent aspect of all artists' experience in Rome or Naples, surfaces elsewhere in Ribera's work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...
WHEN TALES OF DRUNKEN AVIATORS ASSAULTING women at the Tailhook Association convention became public last year, the Navy professed "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment. But in its review of the Navy's handling of the scandal, the Pentagon last week concluded that senior officers who had conducted the inquiry were more concerned about safeguarding the Navy's reputation and protecting officers than naming names or seeking justice...
...former Secretary of State's life and foreign policy. It is filled with spicy revelations about Nixon and Kissinger's tortured relationship: Nixon, we learn, believed Kissinger was mentally unbalanced and at one point in 1971 considered firing him, while Kissinger referred to Nixon behind his back as "our drunken friend" and the "meatball mind." Isaacson also details Kissinger's passionate distrust of even his closest aides, which led to his wiretapping them and helped lay the foundation, Isaacson argues, for the Watergate scandal. But more important, Kissinger also contains the most credible account of Nixon and Kissinger's inability...
Falls from balconies, especially during drunken parties, have also been reported in the past three years...
...Muslim villagers in Cela tell a different story, not of harmony but of terror. First a lamb was stolen during weapons searches. Then 15 men were taken away for "interrogation"; only 14 returned. Another man was sent to the Serb-run mountain prison camp at Manjaca. Drunken militiamen set fire to the mosque, killed an old Muslim man and dumped his body down a well...