Word: drunks
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...same side of the head"). The book is filled with whiteliquor lore, including a description of all the impurities to be found in moonshine: "Maggots spawn in mash. Rats, snakes, owls, possums, foxes, and other small creatures find their way to it and drink it and get drunk and fall in and drown." What Wilkinson does best, though, is evoke the spirits of a man, a region and a culture that have remained stubbornly idiosyncratic. The last words Bunting says to Wilkinson, "A purpose accomplished is sweet to the soul," turn out to apply equally to them both...
...avoiding muggings. Gearing up for next month's Oktoberfest, officers in Munich, who claim their city is Europe's safest, will be on the lookout not only for German pickpockets but for American miscreants. They arrest over a hundred U.S. citizens each year during the beery festival. The offense: drunk driving...
...over to say farewell. We were all sitting around playing some innocuous drinking games, when Stuart arrived and suggested we play "I Never." You would go around the room and declare something you had never done; everyone who had done it had to drink. Since I had never been drunk before, everyone wanted to get me trashed: But I hadn't done too much, so they really had to dig deep to find things I had done that no one else had. Someone said they'd never gotten the highest grade in a course at Harvard. I drank. Someone said...
Within its first decade, the movie industry had recapitulated America's century-long trek westward. In 1900, before the picturemakers arrived, Los Angeles was a sleepy city of 102,000 -- the population of Memphis or Omaha. But the immigrants could get drunk on the possibilities of all that air, desert, sea; ambition had elbow room there. And soon after settling in the Los Angeles suburb of Hollywood, the industry discovered the last element it needed to achieve dominance among the popular arts: movie stars. Two of them, by turning stereotypes of Everyman and Pretty Girl into archetypes, would become...
...unpunished murder of his father, King Agamemnon. So did Hamlet, who could have killed Claudius at his prayers but then decided not to risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...