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...forced them to consume obscene quantities of alcohol, installing a stomach-pumping station in the next room for emergencies, says a friend. At the Boat Club, Uday kept a monkey named Louisa in a cage in the kitchen. Louisa had a taste for whiskey and was an angry drunk. If one of Uday's friends passed out in the course of an evening or was caught napping, says a butler, Uday would have the friend thrown into the cage with Louisa, who would scratch at the poor inebriate's face...
...over-enunciated roar makes him sound like a postmodern Tom Jones. The music is guitar pop, but Electric Six are liberated or lazy enough to steal ideas from anywhere, so disco beats and power chords get sprinkled in. Most tracks sound as if AC/DC and the Village People got drunk together, especially Gay Bar, which has Valentine growling of a lesbian ex-girlfriend, "You're a superstar, at the gay bar." The joke goes on too long, even at 38 minutes, but it would take a hard-heart not to laugh, or at least dance. --By Josh Tyrangiel
Lately, other coaches have forgotten other rules. There's ex-basketball coach Larry Eustachy of Iowa State, who forgot the one about not getting drunk and canoodling with coeds. There's Jim Harrick, ex-basketball coach of the University of Georgia, who forgot the one about not permitting athletes to receive bogus class credits. There's Jan van Breda Kolff, ex-basketball coach of St. Bonaventure University, who forgot to require a transfer student to have a two-year degree, not a certificate in welding...
...year in Japan, sake drinking becomes a national pursuit. As the ubiquitous cherry blossoms briefly turn the country pink, clusters of friends and relatives converge to claim squares of picnic space beneath the trees. They admire the blooms, sing songs and devour delicacies, but mostly they get uproariously drunk on cup after cup of sake...
...self-censorship of Prague in the waning days of communism. Named after a popular children's game, Pupendo has two protagonists. Bedrich Mára, a well-known Czech sculptor expelled from the Prague art academy for political reasons, is a staunch anticommunist who boycotts elections, and a drunk who supplements his income through insurance fraud. Míla Brecka, on the other hand, is a school principal who clearly profits from his party membership yet justifies it: "Not all communists are the same. Somebody joins them in order to soften [the system] from within. Somebody has to sacrifice himself...