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...helped that he stopped drinking, though Altman bridles at the suggestion. "I stopped drinking for health reasons. I've never jeopardized anything by either the drinking or the gambling" -- he plays poker, backgammon and the horses -- "or the pot smoking. I do smoke pot. I sit on the front porch like a grandpa and try to enjoy the weather...
Marriage counseling is in, and so is staying sober. The barfly characters who cried in their beer in classic country songs have been displaced by yuppified drinkers who, in the words of a Reid song, are content to be sitting on their porch and "sippin' some wine/ from my coffee cup." That is, if they're drinking at all. In the video Travis Tritt made last year for The Whiskey Ain't Workin', the character he plays pointedly refuses to drown his sorrows in alcohol...
MANCHESTER, N.H.--Town locals, campaign volunteers and undecided voters discussed, bashed and praised the debate performances of the five democratic presidential candidates, as they engaged in good old-fashioned porch swing politics and bar-stool commentary at restaurants and support rallies across the Granite State...
...concentrated, forced effort to make up for irretrievable moments. Children could not be expected to schedule all their needs in a prime-time slot. Adults found they had to work harder to hire people to do the work they had no time for: raking the leaves, fixing the porch, taking care of the kids and even cooking meals...
Europe may one day be ready for political union. But that is still only a dream, better suited to two friends talking lazily on a porch than to phalanxes of aides and analysts whispering in their bosses' ears at international conferences...