Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Soviet embassy in Washington warned of "far-reaching consequences" if the "kidnaping" of the boy was allowed to proceed. Walter's father, who speaks almost no English, asked: "Am I a drunkard? Do I starve my children? Have I broken any laws? I have not. So who is the Government to take my child?" In defense of young Walter, an aunt, Anastasia Junko of Santa Barbara, Calif., declared that even in the Ukraine the children had never been close to their father, whom friends of the family describe as a strict disciplinarian. Daughter Natalie, who also insists on staying...
...Mediterranean" subjects of the 1930s, with their bulls and horses, virgins and Minotaurs, caves, ruins and nymphs. Allegory was the conscious, intelligible form of Picasso's vast instinctive talent for metamorphosis, whereby a single form could harbor two or more literal meanings: a glass of absinthe including a drunkard's head, a guitar turning into a torso or a vagina, a bicycle seat becoming a bull's head. Moreover, the ability to handle allegory was the proof of high ambition: Gauguin had gone to Tahiti to paint huge emblems of human fate, not just to see papayas...
...land all his own--he walks through the house nude to experience the joy of ownership--two old cars, a chunk of desert land sold to him by a con man, and more debt than he can handle. The dream turns into the nightmare, Weston turns into a drunkard, and the refrigerator stands empty...