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This book contains, among many other wonderful things, the greatest poem ever written about spring break, which begins, "I'm sixteen in the Bahamas. A drunk girl/ on a balcony in a sundress/ with a pina colada." Kasischke's verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday--making macaroni and cheese, getting pulled over for speeding--and the eternal, the plainspoken and the lyrical, the comfortable and the abyss of loss that lies just beneath it: "All morning I try to kill a fly in the kitchen,/ but it isn't ready...
...which point the homeowner may shoot first and ask questions later--a provision commonly referred to as the "Castle Doctrine." But the N.R.A. and Florida lawmakers apparently felt the definition of one's "castle" needed broadening to include pretty much anywhere a person might happen to wander. Some drunk spoiling for a fight at your favorite bar? Don't "retreat" to another barstool. Flash the .44 Magnum in your shoulder holster and ask the punk if he feels lucky...
...play requires that we cheer for Philolaches despite his bad behavior and abuse of his father’s money, and we do—largely because he is played as a consummately lovable drunk, dazedly wandering around the set and spouting pearls of pseudo-wisdom. Near the beginning, he gives a long monologue about how he went from an upright young man to a drunken partier. Besides being on a topic that may resonate for many Harvard students, the speech is delivered with the type of drunken-yet-dignified aplomb that most partiers could only wish...
...goaltender in the National Hockey League, most valuable player for the Philadelphia Flyers and member of the 1980 Swedish Olympic hockey team; from severe brain and spinal-cord injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Stratford, N.J. After celebrating a Flyers' victory at a bar with teammates, Lindbergh, legally drunk, hit a concrete wall on the way home in his Porsche. Said Flyers Coach Mike Keenan, after Lindbergh's family agreed to donate their son's organs for transplant: "It's appropriate. He died making one more save...
...Dead shows (dozens of Dead shows--drug free, she claims). She grew up in a Reagan household and began to explore conservatism on her own at Cornell. There she discovered both liberals, who made her more conservative, and feckless conservatives in the "cigar-smoking, martini-drinking, oh-I-get-drunk-all-the-time libertarian mode," who made her more socially conservative. But there was a twist. In 1984, in an article for the conservative Cornell Review, Coulter attacked its editor for writing, "Statistics are like bikinis: what they show is important, but what they conceal is vital." "The message...