Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first week, we were invited to the President's house and given sherry," he says. "The University poured sherry down your throat [and] served liquor to its freshmen on a regular basis. I still can't stand...
Undergraduates at last Monday's Leverett Formal were warned that if supervisors caught just one underage drinker at the event, then organizers would stop serving liquor. Needless to say, 30 minutes after the warning, the bar was shut...
...without much direction either from his remote mother or the various courtiers. (Bourne built the character in part on what he has read about Prince Charles' disastrous childhood.) The Swan Lake Prince gives debauchery a try but finds he's no good at it--too gullible, no head for liquor...
...Less widely, but perhaps more fashionably. Daisy Maryles, executive editor of Publishers Weekly, notes that "people want to read something they view as significant or trendy or that people are talking about." Could books be the latest life-style accessories? The equivalent of cigars for the brain? Several liquor firms have taken to sponsoring literary evenings at which prospective single-malt-Scotch buyers clink glasses with budding novelists. The association of booze and books is long, close and infamously troubled (would a stumbling William Faulkner or Dylan Thomas be welcome at such a gathering?), but the distilleries don't seem...
...born and raised in Rotterdam, where his father Leendert de Kooning was a liquor distributor and his mother Cornelia Nobel--reputedly a woman of fearsome toughness--ran a sailors' bar on the waterfront. He studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts in the 1920s. It often used to be said that de Kooning got an extensive training in classical draftsmanship there. This wasn't true. What he wanted to be was a commercial artist, an illustrator--to do the kinds of illustrations he had seen in American magazines...