Word: drunks
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...banning hypnotically induced testimony, North Carolina joins at least eleven other states. One of the first was Minnesota, whose supreme court ruled it out in 1980. In that case a woman under hypnosis, who at the time of the event was apparently drunk and confused, summoned up a scene in which a male companion sexually assaulted her with a knife. Under hypnosis she recalled too much, including several incidents that could not have happened. In throwing out a rape conviction in 1983, New York's highest court declared that hypnosis created "a mixture of accurate recall, fantasy or pure...
...article in Izvestia last week, the Soviets countered that the Marine had been rowdy and drunk and that the police had intervened only to save his life after he had wandered into traffic. Yet in the past six months, the U.S. claims, security agents or other Soviets in Leningrad have arrested, detained and harassed at least a dozen Americans, including diplomats, without provocation. Said a State Department official: "This is intended to convey our considerable unhappiness...
...theater career," said Gielgud last week. Burton's friends had been telling him that for years. It was advice he did not want to take. "I rather like my reputation, actually," he said when he turned 50. "That of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer. It's rather an attractive image." Some measure out their lives with coffee spoons; Burton, like his friend and fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas, poured his out by the bucketful until, at last, there was nothing left. -By Gerald Clarke
...might be said that next to freedom, there is nothing a Pole cherishes as much as his vodka. However, alcohol abuse has become one of the country's most serious problems. According to estimates by the Roman Catholic Church, 3 million Poles are drunk on any given day. A worried church and the outlawed Solidarity trade union have joined forces to revive a two-year-old campaign urging Poles to give up their excessive liquor consumption, at least for the month of August...
...Chicano East Los Angeles. James says that his intention was never to deceive but simply "to write about Mexicans from the inside. I wasn't trying to jump on the ethnic bandwagon." Besides, he liked being the impudent young Santiago who is "like me when I'm drunk." That said, he reports that Santiago is already busy at work on his second novel...