Word: drunks
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Life in the apartment changes when Treat decides to kidnap a well-dressed drunk, but Harold (Ted Kazanoff), also an orphan, turns out to be a professional gangster with a taste for whisky who has fled trouble in Chicago...
...mother to the McDonald's across from the Austerlitz train station. Until 1989, the spot was occupied by a vast cafe, the Arc-en-Ciel. But Marie Biondi, Shannon's mother, does not mourn the disappearance of the bistro. "We feel safe here," she says. "We avoid the neighborhood drunk, and the toilets are clean." Nearby, medical student Christophe Icard, 21, converses with a companion over chocolate ice cream. Cafes are "expensive and old-fashioned," he says...
...been banished in favor of an American apartment decorated in 1960s high tacky. The Stahlbaum children get a giant Barbie doll and a spaceman at their family Christmas Eve party. The guests are dressed in the worst excesses of a quarter-century ago, and before long they are drunk and lubricious. Postmodern choreographer Mark Morris, never at a loss for a flip word or gesture, insists that his take on the Tchaikovsky classic is not a send-up, but that is exactly what it is -- rude, boisterous and more than a little, well, nutty...
Nutrition and hygiene must also be imported. The military will have to desalinate or purify every drop of water drunk by troops. Water consumption for a 16,000-member division is roughly 300,000 gal. daily. The troops have been immunized for a wide range of diseases, including yellow fever and typhoid, and truck-mounted pesticide sprayers are being brought in to do battle against flies and mosquitoes...
...spend at least half of your time at scenic, snow-covered Mt. Brokenleg--half of the time that you aren't drunk in the lodge, that is--getting up the hill...