Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 83 million television viewers tuned in to Dallas three weeks ago to find out who shot J.R. Ewing. In an hour's time, they saw Ewing's accused attacker, Wife Sue Ellen, stagger around drunk and mourn her former lover. They watched a flashback in which Sue Ellen's comely sister Kristin fired...
...election after being convicted of bribery in the FBI Abscam investigation. Writing in last weekend's Washington Post magazine, Rita Jenrette, 30, confesses: "I knew the honeymoon was over when I rolled over one morning to find John's side of the bed unruffled. I found him drunk, undressed and lying on the floor in the arms of a woman who I knew was old enough to be his mother." But all such problems are behind them now, says Rita, an aspiring pop singer and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia. "I feel we are embarking...
Sixth precinct detectives released the officers immediately after questioning but held Chen overnight and charged him with menacing. Chinatown residents said the police listened only to the housing officers and refused to believe Chen. The officers charged that Lin and Chen were drunk and that they hit Lin in self-defense after he attacked them...
...what a subject for an essay: Alexander the brave, the learned, the musical; Alexander the driven, the murderous, perhaps the mad. Alexander the god. Alexander the drunk. His head dominates the exhibition. In one room there is a congress of his heads, white heads on pillars as if on spears, all facing each other in objective admiration. The ones in the center of the room are spotlit from the ceiling; their shadows make stars on the carpet. It is said that Alexander's real head slept with a dagger and a copy of the Iliad under the pillow...
...then do you get close to such a man? The objects in the exhibition are merely touchstones: a helmet he might have worn, the color of a shallow sea; a silver rhyton, or drinking horn, in the shape of a deer's head, from which he might have drunk; coins that his father had minted in 356 B.C., the year of his birth, commemorating Philip's entering a race horse in the Olympic Games (a sign of acceptance by the Greeks). Heads, Zeus; tails, a jockey. Alexander might have handled those coins...