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...From Here?," "Smoke Signal," and "Shoot Out in Chinatown" are all good rock and roll, but no much better really than "Cracklin' Rosie" or any other Neil Diamond song. "4 per cent Pantomime" starts off well, but gets bogged down by the presence of Van Morrison, who seems drunker than usual and postures absurdly for much of the song. Most of the rest of the material sounds good when you listen to it, but is utterly forgettable...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Some of the New Stuff | 10/20/1971 | See Source »

...Virginia Woolf is a study in gamesmanship, gamesmanship that comes more and more into the open as the evening gets later and the characters drunker. A post faculty-party get-together reaches the point where pretenses and defenses have completely fallen before a siege of garbled speech and very clearly pointed conversation. The games are played for more than prestige-points; the stakes rise until two players are at each other's throats and the two others are very nearly at the point of psychological defeat...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Liberals Virginia Woolf | 2/18/1971 | See Source »

...drunker than I am," says the drunk...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Chant'Hare Krishna'and Your Life Will Be Sublime | 3/13/1970 | See Source »

...yard's Sands Street honky-tonk strip-where all real sailors prayed to go to when they died. Says Mrs. Martha Dimmler, Big Martha to Navymen of three wars who packed the Red Mill Bar: "It used to be that no place in the world had wilder, drunker, more wonderful sailors than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Whatever Happened to Brooklyn? | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...people and their exhiliration lends a curious atmosphere of bustle to the preparation of the morning edition. Editors scurry about with a more purposeful air; glancing over A.P. dispatches, composing headlines, running up from the basement to report how much type has been set. And the theatre people act drunker than they are; preening themselves, performing little dances or comic bits with one another, trying to engage editors in their own brand of snappy repartee, joking together about the fatuities of the CRIMSON...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Editors and Theatre People | 12/5/1964 | See Source »

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