Word: drunkenness
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...some adulterous lip-locking for certain members of a crew of Harvard athletes. Most attendees of Gilbert’s Saturday throwdown––a truly epic gathering, to be sure––found it particularly difficult to step around the pools of drunken vomit. Likewise, a certain birthday boy found it near impossible to tolerate all the Pudding served at his celebration, and was forced instead to toss his cookies...
...Jackie Chan's turn, in the PG-rated The Spy Next Door. At 55, he is well past his prime as the Hong Kong martial-arts sensation who wowed the world by doing all his own stunts in the Project A, Police Story, Armour of God and Drunken Master franchises, which he parlayed into success in the West with the Rush Hour series. Lately, Chan has settled into a more modest double life: making broad action comedies on both sides of the Pacific. This latest American effort is a deplorable, but also forgettable and forgivable, episode in his checkered Hollywood...
...inept and corrupt. Add in a world press that's only too ready to confirm the unimaginative (and mistaken) view that Africa only produces bad news and all it will take for, say, the British press to label the World Cup a catastrophe is for a couple of drunken England fans to stumble into the wrong part of town. (See pictures of Johannesburg preparing for the World...
...with Prince Dmitry Ivanovich. Monks in the Kremlin's Chudov Monastery began distilling the first Russian spirits some time in the 15th century. Ivan the Terrible served vodka to his oprichniki - the special police force that carried out his violent and, well, terrible orders. To facilitate their drunken revelry, Ivan opened kabaks, or taverns, that served vodka and other alcohol (no food). By 1648, with Russians developing a strong taste for drink, a third of the country's male population was in debt to the state-owned kabaks. When Moscow started collecting the debts, peasants responded by distilling and distributing...
...ecstasies. It comes at you as a reprieve, a final appearance from an old friend you thought was already gone for good. It's a shambles, a heap of shards, but they're Nabokov's shards and no one else's: the "nasty compassion" the partygoers direct at a drunken Flora; the "alien creams" Flora spots in someone else's bathroom (recalling the "solemn pool of alien urine" deposited by Mr. Taxovich in another bathroom in Lolita); the playful half-rhyme of belie and belly; the perhaps overly wink-winky inclusion of a pedophile named Mr. Hubert H. Hubert...