Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vandals apparently were drunk, but this was still a deliberate and partially anti-Semitic act, said Sharon E. Cohen, administrative assistant for Hillel at Brown. Hillel members rebuilt the sukkah, which remained undamaged for the rest of the eight-day holiday...
THATS HOW I'll remember this fall--the year football died. No good reasons now to blow off Sundays no pretext for beers at dinner Monday night, drunk in anxious anticipation. No reason to read Sports Monday, unless you count the results from the Australian grass court tennis circuit. The recession has spread to organized crime and the bookies must be hurting. Yeah, there's still college football, but I'll shoot the cap off a bottle of beer with 22 to 50 yards blindfolded before I pick four college games correctly...
...ENEMIGO DE LOS PUEBLOS." In Africa, Bech the imperialist discovers that the rate of cultural exchange is being alarmingly devalued: "The students found decadent and uninteresting Proust, Joyce, Shakespeare, Sartre, Hemingway-Hemingway, who had so enjoyed coming to Tanganyika and killing its kudu and sitting by its campfires getting drunk and pontifical-and Henry James. Who, then, Bech painfully asked, did measure up to the exacting standards that African socialism had set for literature?" The Orient brings Bech confused mash notes from South Korean schoolgirls and a beaming local poet who writes poems about "flogs." How many poems about frogs...
...will keep moving provocatively, to sidestep the carnage. The film was shot 24 years ago, and Director Ashby has spent much of the time since then fine-tuning the editing. The effort shows, but not the effect: the picture is a sloppy mess that stumbles toward oblivion like a drunk on a losing streak...
Asked why he had committed the alleged burglary and drunk wine belonging to the son of the owner of the premises, the defendant replied that he was "obeying a little voice in my head. Security was so bad I wanted to show as an example that I could get in." As for the alleged theft, he said, "I was thirsty and could not find a tap. [The wine] was in a cupboard. I was just waiting to be captured." As courtroom explanations go, they were certainly imaginative. But they were enough to convince a jury at London...