Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...their inflated fees to the producers, dishwashers pay their bosses for the opportunity to work, and waitresses pay off their captains. "There is a depth of corruption here that would leave even the Vietnamese breathless," reported TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Don Neff. "A prominent banker, after his third drink, talks loudly about kickbacks: '$50,000, $75,000 off the top−so what's that?' A famous attorney declares in public: 'If he doesn't like it, I got friends who will take him to the edge of town and take care...
...Santa Paula moves down the Hudson toward the sea, my first faint yearnings for a cigarette coalesce into raving desire. A quick drink only magnifies the pangs. The dinner gong bongs and I meet my tablemates: we loathe each other on sight. One sucks on dummy cigarettes. Another is clearly going to have no trouble quitting: he is too loaded to light a cigarette. Says Hy, a Newark businessman: "We are all compulsive suicides...
...indeed compared to Keith, who stated early in the campaign that a congressman shouldn't have to an opinion on everything, and his primary opponent, State Senator William D. Weeks, whose principle achievement in a six-year legislative career was sponsoring a bill making cranberry juice the official state drink, and who stated as one of the three reasons he ran for Congress the need for an electronic vote counter in the House chamber...
...monstrous honesty, the grotesque Dr. Faustroll with his science of 'Pataphysics and his Caesar-Antichrist are the collective grandparents of the theaters of cruelty and the absurd. As Jarry lay dying at 34-of an acute brain inflammation caused by tuberculosis and aggravated by drink-he was obsessed by that image of death's anarchic joke, a skull and crossbones with its toothy eternal grin. To his last words he was defiantly absurdist: he asked for a toothpick...
...Raby renders the venerable old Dumas novel in a succession of Forty, Count em, Forty, Swiftly Moving and Breathtakingly Dramatic Scenes-See D'Artagnan outwit the Cardinal's guards! See Milady de Winter steal the Queen's jewels from the Duke of Buckingham! See Con-stance, wife of Bonacieux, drink the fatal glass of wine!-George Hamlin's current Loeb production works up virtually every type of scene Polonius could ever want to see. It's a Baskin-Robbins approach to theatre and it includes nigh unto every flavor known...