Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their drinking and raping and viciousness tolerated by army officers. As relief workers struggled to get food to the spreading camps, the Hutu, equipped with cars and radios, kept track of where the next food distribution would occur and raced to get there first. The militia, many of them drunk or stoned on marijuana, stopped convoys to demand bribes and a portion of the supplies, wildly firing their weapons...
...aggressive abstemiousness, we can be grateful to Comedy Central for picking up AbFab, even if it is a bit of a disappointment. The playing is broad, not all the references travel well, and seeing two middle-age women get tipsy -- and even falling-down drunk -- can quickly become tiresome. Still, the show delivers risque humor (Patsy to Edina: "Have you got some knickers I can borrow, sweetie? I didn't get home last night"). Trendiness is neatly skewered (Edina's into aromatherapy, reflexology and rebirthing). And the stars are abfab. Jennifer Saunders, who writes the show and plays Edina...
Driving into the parking lot, you might have guessed that you were at a Grateful Dead show were it not for the noticeably younger crowd. It's all too easy to slip into the cynical attitude that sneers "Who are all these drunk and stoned idiots and why are they ruining my band?" The fact of the matter is that at the smaller shows of yesteryear the idiot-factor was probably the same--proportionally there were probably just as many, but now it's 50% of 12,000 instead of 50% of 1,200. Furthermore, these shows are such...
...over from there. The fictional author forces the reader and himself through a "parade of memories" that "push upstream like a sampan toward the past." Some are gentle, as when his squad mistakenly receives a shipment of bras and side-button pants. Others are stark, as when he collapses drunk at Saigon airport at war's end and wakes up next to a dead, naked prostitute...
...Some 35% of college women say they sometimes drink alcohol expressly to get drunk. That's more than triple the 1977 percentage, which means that women have nearly matched their male classmates...