Word: drunkenness
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...theatre well, making the actual space seem larger. They prance through the aisles and leap onto the side ledges, providing a spectacle that captures the audience’s attention from every corner of the room. We don’t know whether to look at the drunken man staggering through the aisle or the sloppily dressed duo at the front of the room, swinging their legs in unison as they relax on the ledge...
...extract from “Omon Ra” by Victor Pelevin takes an even bleaker outlook. The drunken narrator comes to realize that “the entire immense country in which [he] lived was made up of lots and lots of these lousy little closets where there was a smell of garbage and people had just been drinking cheap port,” an acknowledgment of the tedium and squalidness of quotidian life in the Soviet Union. Other stories critique the endless, labyrinthine bureaucracy and the culture of mistrust, where civilians spy on their fellow citizens...
...Tree lives near Barcelona's one remaining bullring - the city used to have three - and he collected signatures in favor of the initiative to ban the sport. As he describes it, the only people who regularly fill the stands are tourists. "You get all these drunken tourists who come and yell their heads off as an animal is brutally killed. And they're only there because they think they're in a normal part of Spain, and that's what you do in Spain." (See pictures of Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival, La Tomatina...
...You” is lively enough, but you can’t help but wonder whether Muse’s apocalyptic sound is really suited to such lovelorn lyrical material.This litany of mediocrity is only interrupted by track six, “Unnatural Selection.” With shouted, drunken sports fan-style “hey!”s, and a surging guitar riff, it’s the kind of propulsive tune that could send Muse fans into paroxysms of joy at their live shows. The downside: at seven minutes, it’s about three...
...ones I relate to most strongly are Ravi, who is a drunken journalist, and Michael Teak, who is the young idealistic spy before the fall...