Word: swig
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...pair of infantry-bound cadets swig beer and shake off their doubts. What, after all, could be tougher than West Point, where failure to have your books arranged by descending height on your desk can earn you hours of forced marching in the rain? "That's how they get us fired up for Iraq," says one. "After four years here, anything's better." Another suspects that for all the training, they still don't know what they are in for. "West Point is an academic institution, not a training ground," he says. "I think a lot of us are going...
...before their fans wander on in search of drunker pastures. The second disk is void of any of the songs that gave the Crüe their extended fifteen minutes of fame. Mötley Crüe made its name in mindless driving rock to which one could swig a beer; in trying to highlight their accomplishments of the post-grunge, semi-cleaned-up 90s, they recede into a softening sound and fading tattoos. Where the first half of the album was intermittently comical, and perhaps a guilty treat for former fans of the band, the second half...
...Decemberists’ “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect,” it uses the setting of classic small-town America to comment on the corruption of modernity. Through the loss of its characters’ innocence—a boy takes a swig of alcohol for the first time, another takes the orange that a blind girl is carefully peeling and bites into it almost maliciously—the piece becomes a bittersweet expression of regret for days gone by and the desire to protect one from the outside world. When the characters come together...
...east of the capital, Phnom Penh, to munch on a deep-fried spider. These fist-sized arachnids are crunchy on the outside and taste like cold, gooey chicken on the inside. They cost just 12? apiece, but for a little extra you can wash them down with a swig of spider-infused rice wine...
...sign language for all his dialogue--and his songs too--while another actor, perched at the edge of the stage, supplies his voice. His drunken Pap is actually two scraggly, bearded actors, one hearing and one deaf, who play off each other in clever ways (when one takes a swig from a jug of moonshine, the other wipes his mouth). The rest of the cast of Big River, a Broadway revival of the 1985 Tony-winning musical based on Mark Twain's novel, is a mix of deaf and hearing actors--the most ambitious attempt yet to bring deaf actors...