Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...casts another glance at his corner of the library. "I've been collecting comic books for a long time," he says. "One night in my sophomore year, I stumbled into the library really drunk and looked at the comic collection as it was then. It really appalled me--a lot of them were all torn up and the comics that were there were really shitty--comics like 'Superman.' So I went to the House Committee and got them to give me $25 for the spring semester to fix up the collection. And I got it back in shape...
...case, America became the place where the world came to get lucky. Americans believed in the splendidly transforming powers of luck in their land. Men born in poverty made fortunes. They struck oil and gold. Hard work went into it, of course, but for a long time Americans were drunk on the luck of their sheer possibility. Foreigners bemused by America have often thought that too much good luck deprived Americans of a sense of the tragic. In the past 15 years or so, Americans have been riding a bad streak. It is possible they responded to Reagan because...
...their guns to defend themselves against the rising tribes of bad guys. It is very hard to persuade the good guys that all those guns in their hands wind up doing more lethal harm to their own kind than to the animals they fear; that good guys sometimes get drunk and shoot other good guys in a rage, or blow their own heads off (by design or accident) or hit their own children by mistake. Most murders are done on impulse, and handguns are perfectly responsive to the purpose: a blind red rage flashes in the brain and fires...
...know why I got back into it." Gaines, a native of Winter Haven. Fla., says of his return to swimming in the middle of his junior year in high school. "I knew I had to do something other than get drunk every weekend...
...glass of wine on a second patron, then tried to share her chocolate souffle with everyone in the place. Burnett did not deny that she dined at the restaurant that night, spoke to Kissinger and had "two, maybe three" glasses of wine. But, she testified, "They portrayed me as drunk." The Enquirer maintained that its information came from a normally reliable source (then freelance tipster, now Enquirer Columnist R. Couri Hay), that staffers had made efforts to verify the tip, and that a retraction ("These events did not occur") was published as soon as the tabloid learned it was wrong...