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...office thinking Ho has to be on the line. But he isn't, and we can't fool ourselves about Ho. It's like an old cowboy used to say, 'There's no use being poor and stupid all your life when you can buy a pint of whiskey and be rich and smart in an hour.' We can't do that...
...people arguing about bets; 'Hold on there, I'll handle this' (waving pint of whiskey, fistful of dollar bills); girl riding piggyback, T-shirt says, "Stolen from Fort Lauderdale Jail.' Thousands of teen-agers, group singing 'Let the Sun Shine In,' ten soldiers guarding the American flag...So far we hadn't seen that special kind of face...the mark of the whiskey gentry--a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams and a terminal identity crisis; the inevitable result of too much inbreeding in a closed and ignorant culture...
...readers of The Color Purple, but it is hardly an anticlimactic follow-up to the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. The collection of poem's begins with an almost apologetic quote from Lame Deer, a Sioux medicine man: "For bringing us the horse we could almost forgive you for bringing us whiskey. Horses make a landscape look more beautiful." The reader who expects poems about horses and flowers, however, will be disappointed. Walker's poems are sharp, often political criticisms aimed at contemporary society...
According to the UCLA Daily Bruin, Thompson appeared unusually sober, although he was presented a bottle of Wild Turkey Whiskey and a bottle of Heineken beer, which he drank quickly...
...think twice about "peace-keeping" and about a "national security directive," and forget to consider what such words really mean. But if we remember for a second what we are really about, the business of electing decent Presidents, it should not be hard to get rid of this whiskey-semantic trance; carry a dictionary and a Constitution about when you listen to the President speak, and refer to them, not to your yearning for the frontier. Then let us hope that in 1985, we can send all the thises, peacekeeping forces and randomly cited percentages back to California, where they...