Word: drunks
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...movie producer David O. Selznick had to do it. He was a drug addict (Benzedrine), a compulsive gambler (in 1946 alone he lost $581,621) and an equally compulsive womanizer (no star, secretary or script girl was safe from his lunging, oafish passes). He was often drunk, he never smoked less than three packs a day, and he usually worked deep into the night, wearing out ranks of stenographers as he manically dictated memos, stream-of- consciousness-style, in an attempt to maintain control over every detail of his films and of a business and personal life that yearly grew...
...vultures sit in the hills. Drunk on slivovitz and nationalism, they fire through the intermittent radiance...
...surrounding crush of people. It would be impossible, at this point, to fall, much less move anyplace, because a dense knot of bodies presses in from every direction. More TV camera lights flare up--Entertainment Tonight and CBS--and the room becomes one crowded, sweaty, hyperthermic, and increasingly drunk exercise in swirling claustrophobia...
...Drunk people in pubs and soccor matches couldn't sing "God Save the Queen...
...introduction says the big book adapts infallible church teaching to illuminate "the new situations and problems which had not yet emerged in the past." Writers of the last such catechism 426 years ago could not have imagined some sins condemned in 1992: test-tube conception, artificial insemination, speeding, drunk driving and check bouncing. There were closer medieval analogues for such evils as unjustly low wages, pornography, tax evasion and drug trafficking...