Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rejoin the group for their next concert. That was an hour ago and now Chess and the rest of the Kroks are sitting around in the parlor at the Faculty Club, waiting to sing for more corporate types fresh off a day at the Ryder Cup. Increasingly drunk, the PricewaterhouseCoopers crowd, who have rented the club for the night, give speeches about one another, their wives, their golf and the English as the Kroks, prepare their fail-safe routine. A few grab pitchers of water and drape napkins over their arms to disguise themselves as waiters, a gag which draws...
...also learned that unlike at a friend's wedding, it's a bad idea to get drunk and hook up with guests, because of the preponderance of cousins. In some ways, though, your mom's wedding is better. When a friend asks you to recite something at the service, you can't say no. But when your mom asks the family to read a poem, you can get out of it by persuading your little sister to say she's afraid of public speaking. At first I wasn't sure exactly why reading at the ceremony seemed so dreadful. Then...
...sleep may dull your senses as much as drinking does. Folks with sleep apnea--a common disorder in which sufferers momentarily awaken throughout the night because breathing stops--did worse on 3 out of 7 tests of reaction time than those whose blood-alcohol level would make them too drunk to drive in 15 states. Could ordinary insomniacs run into the same problems? Probably, doctors...
...made his Broadway debut, did he have any idea he would still be in the business-a screen star almost 40 years later? He says it was no conscious career choice: "I always knew." But perhaps most inspiring was an early high school performance as the Grover's Corner drunk in Our Town. A few audience members found the part more than convincing. "I can't believe it! Peter's drunk! On stage!" Fonda gasps and laughs. "I loved it. I thought, I can do this. This is what I want...
...caller from Weld Boathouse reported a drunk woman climbing onto the dock after swimming across the Charles. The subject was taken to the hospital...