Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnson was unable to go ahead with his plan to open a social venue in the Nightstage property because the License Commission policy of "capping"--which restricts the amount of liquor licenses allowed in an area--made it too expensive...
...normal pace. To clear the breakfast trays she needs a running start, and Ruth spends the duration of the play trying to slow her down. The triviality of this detail is magnified enormously as it is repeated, endlessly. Also distracting is the number of times Charles visits the liquor cabinet and meticulously makes dry martinis--stirred, not shaken. The pace of the plot is not quick enough to keep from being bogged down by these contrivances...
...After completing my first semester here at Harvard, I have arrived at a solution to all of our institutional woes--state liquor laws should be callously disregarded and we should all throw caution to the wind. The student body needs a stiff drink...
...Ovitz isn't being profligate, as is clear from a story that Seagram's scion Edgar Bronfman Jr. has told friends. Years ago, Ovitz, then an agent, called Bronfman to ask him to prevent the forced retirement of Ovitz's father, who worked for a Southern California liquor distributor affiliated with Seagram. Bronfman complied. In 1995 the two had a much publicized encounter when Bronfman nearly hired Ovitz to run Universal but balked at his extravagant compensation demands. They hadn't really talked since--until Bronfman called Ovitz recently to ask whether he could drop the elder Ovitz from...
...final club event, a freshman was given a great deal of hard liquor. When he became too drunk, he was thrown out of the club. He passed out on the street, and was found by an acquaintance (another student), who half-carried him back to the Yard. Once in the Yard, the drunken student tried to attack his acquaintance...