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...wine and spirits; grocery stores now vend 80% of the nation's beer. Another way of saying this is that most U.S. drinking-about seven-tenths of it-now takes place in the home. Male drinkers still predominate, 77% to 60%, but the ladies' preference for lighter drinks and their sheer presence, has put a governor on the drinking capacities and intentions of the surrounding males...
...graduation from high school, he is drinking at least episodically-along with more than three-fourths of the student body. Like the hippie minority, most youthful drinkers stick to wine and beer, possibly because liquor is regarded as the old folks' hang-up but more probably because the lighter drinks are easier on the pocket and the throat...
...South Korean CIA persuaded the suspects to return home by threats against their relatives or offers of lighter sentences, but the news that they had been taken back to Korea touched off a furor in Western Europe, where most of them lived. France and West Germany, neither of which has extradition treaties with South Korea, lodged official protests with Seoul...
...production by the Boston ballet was remodeled by Virginia Williams. Too often the result is painfully disconnected, sliding over the more intense moments in the score with a frivolous pat-de-chat and dwelling on the lighter moments in a tight pirouette. This was especially true in the dance of the Dew Drop Fairy, one of the two major roles in the ballet. Nevertheless, June Perry by far outshone the rest of the Boston Company in that role and stood up well against the sugar plum fairy of guest performer Violet Verdy, one of this country's best ballerinas. These...
Chandler is aware of history too. A Crucifixion scene is titled "For What!?" "Forced Integration," showing a white man raping a Negro woman, is meant to recall the origin of our lighter skinned colored Americans, and an eerie picture of a spiky branch-qua-hand is called "Hanging Tree." An eight-foot-high painting of a bearded Negro holding up a Black Power sign bears the title "Moses Brings the Word to His People...