Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Half the truth about small towns, much sentimentalized now that three-level regional malls with indoor waterfalls have replaced the towns as economic centers, is that they were wonderful, warm places where even the local drunk was part of the patchwork and where attention was paid. That's the genial view taken by novelist Richard Russo in The Risk Pool, Mohawk and his new book Nobody's Fool, three funny, loose-jointed yarns about backwater burgs in upstate New York. Doubtless it is contrary to recall the rest of the truth, which is that small towns were rigidly small-minded...
...takes a couple of minutes for the tongue and the brain to comprehend what has just happened to them when you first ingest Diet Crystal Pepsi. At first, you think you've just drunk a lightly sweetened mineral water. On the second sip, your nose tingles and your throat burns slightly, alerting you to the fact that the drink is carbonated...
...minutes the class flows. Egged on by Kaufman's questions, Rinaldo describes an Indian's drunkenness; Erik says he got drunk because he was depressed, but Khalilah says he was depressed because he was drunk all the time. He should have been supporting the family, not getting drunk, Khalilah says...
...went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar market for modern art was low, and Barnes got nearly everything he wanted, including, as he later boasted, the entire contents of the "drunk, sick and broken" Chaim Soutine's studio "for a pittance" -- about...
...case, there is little doubt that programs aimed at a pathological behavior--that is, drunk driving--certainly are more effective and philosophically justifiable than trying to restrict the sale of the substance that might lead to that behavior...