Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar manner, when Tex returns homes late and drunk after a party. Mason doesn't say "Where were you? I was worried" or "I waited up for you." He just gets up, turns off the light, walks into his room, changes and goes to bed. The brothers relationship is so well established by this time that Mason's concern seems a given. It comes as no surprise when he soon thereafter goes into Tex's room seems his brother sprawled on his bed, and removes Tex's boots Touches like these quietly make life in Bixby seem not altogether unpromising...
Mulcahy was found lying on the doorsill outside a motel cabin in rural Virginia. An autopsy showed that he had been drunk and was suffering from bronchial pneumonia and emphysema; however, no one of these conditions alone caused his death. Even so, his passing would have been unremarkable were it not for the difficult, dangerous crusade that Mulcahy had pursued for the past six years. Almost singlehanded, he had persuaded the Government to investigate and prosecute Frank Terpil and Edwin Wilson, two former CIA employees who made fortunes during the 1970s outfitting terrorist squads from Londonderry to Libya. Terpil remains...
...looks dead when the curtain goes up; he is only dead drunk. Hudley T. Singleton III, who runs his own public relations firm and is known as Hud, is lying on the floor of his Fairfield County, Conn., kitchen with a two-day stubble of beard and two inches left in a quart of vodka. For reasons that seem stupefyingly apparent, his wife has walked out on him, and he has done what every alcoholic does in a moment of crisis-hit the bottle. But his redemptive godfather is at hand, a most unlikely good Samaritan who rips...
...frat-house leer is evident in today's collegiate slang. To get naked means to have a good time, whether or not sex is involved. (That is a new shortened form of the get-drunk-and-get-naked party, which collegians fantasized about 20 years ago.) At Michigan State University, one who is vomiting is driving the bus, a reference to the toilet seat and the wretch's need to hang on to it. Sckacks means ugly. A two-bagger is a girl who requires exactly that to cover her ugliness. Young women, of course, retaliate. At breakfast...
...feet before topping over," a character declures near the begining of Fitzearruldo. With this hit of incident dealogue, the German director Wener Herzog has hit open a sadly apt metaphor forhis new film. Over a 21/2 hour stretch of celluloid, Fitzearruldo lurches and becomes like some Teatonic pachyderm. Drunk on its own significance it dies at our feet collasping under its own weight...