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A Death in the Family

The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two children, her atheist father and the dead man's alcoholic brother.

A Tempestade, ou O Livro dos Dias

Possibly reflecting Renato Russo's health, who was eventually aggravating due to his alcoholic crisis and the AIDS he caught, the tracks are very melancholic, introspective and depressing, with emphasis given to "Mil Pedaços", "Soul Parsifal" (co-written by Marisa Monte), "Longe do Meu Lado", "Quando Você Voltar" and "A Via Láctea", considered by fans to be the most depressing song by Legião.

Alcoholic polyneuropathy

The first description of symptoms associated with alcoholic polyneuropathy were recorded by John C. Lettsome in 1787 when he noted hyperesthesia and paralysis in legs more than arms of patients.

Apple wine

Cider, a fermented alcoholic beverage made from apple juice

Aquavit

Okovita, a historic Polish-Ukrainian term for an alcoholic drink related to vodka

Aqua vitae, Latin for "water of life", a concentrated alcoholic distillate

Asturian people

Apple groves foster the production of the traditional alcoholic drink, a natural cider (sidra).

Barbara Berjer

Among her many soap opera credits were her roles as alcoholic actress Lynn Franklin on From These Roots (1958–1961); Claire English Lowell Cassen Shea #4 on As the World Turns (1965–1971); Barbara Norris Thorpe #2 on Guiding Light (1971–1981; she reprised the role for a few episodes in 1989 and on a recurring basis from 1995–1996); and Scottish nanny Bridget Connell on Another World (1985–1996).

Bill W. and Dr. Bob

"In 1929, the famous New York stockbroker William G. Wilson crashed with the stock market and became a hopeless drunk. Dr. Bob Smith was a surgeon from Ohio, who had also been an alcoholic for thirty years. In fact, he often went into the operating room with a hangover. Through an astonishing series of events, Bill W. and Dr. Bob Smith met and formed a relationship, each helping to keep the other sober. The two went on to form AA together."

Brauerei Ottakringer

In 2007, the company initiated a joint partnership with an Iranian company to build a factory in Tehran for producing non-alcoholic beer.

Burning Sosobra

It featured eleven new songs, a cover of The Doors' "Waiting for the Sun", "Watched Over By Crows" an older song that existed prior to the release Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone, and a new recording of "Alcoholic", which previously appeared only as a radio edit on Danny Boy plus three.

Cascade Brewery

The non-alcoholic range of products was acquired by Coca-Cola Amatil in the third quarter of 2013.

Cermex

Since 1996, Cermex has been the overwrapping and palletizing division of the Sidel Group, part of the Swedish holding Tetra Laval, a global company that provides packaging for food and beverage products including water, soft drinks, milk, juice, sauces, edible oils, beer and alcoholic beverages.

Children of Light

Gordon, an alcoholic drug addict whose wife has left him and who has a bad relationship with his children, goes to Mexico to crash the making of a movie version of Kate Chopin's The Awakening that Lu Anne is starring in, and discovers that she has gone off of her medication in an attempt to more fully embody her character.

Cooking with Elvis

Other characters include his anorexic, alcoholic wife Mam (Charlie Hardwick), their fourteen-year-old daughter Jill (Sharon Percy), and their young lover Stuart (Frank Skinner).

DJ Paul

He founded his own record label Scale-A-Ton Entertainment, co-owns the fashion wear line Dangerus / Skandulus, has a collection of BBQ seasonings and is the spokesman for a legal version of the alcoholic drink Sizzurp.

Elizabeth Marrero

In this performance, Marrero presents five different characters, including the matriarch and slightly alcoholic Petronelia, the B-boy MC DJ Guilly-Guiso-Jugo, the hip hop supermarket cashier Wakateema Shaquasha de la Rodriguez, and Macha, a suave Latino crooner that loves women.

George Kenneth Mallory

In 1929 Mallory and Soma Weiss, a physician at Harvard, described 15 cases of severe, painless hemorrhage caused by a tear in the mucosa of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction preceded by vomiting in alcoholic patients.

Gerard Parkes

After Fraggle Rock, in addition to returning as Doc in A Muppet Family Christmas, Parkes continued to work in children's television, guest starring as alcoholic photographer Phil (opposite Sesame Park puppeteer Nina Keogh) on the TVOntario puppet series Today's Special, and appearing regularly on PBS's Shining Time Station as store owner Barton Winslow.

Green–white–checker finish

On the final lap, some angry fans again threw debris (seat cushions, alcoholic beverage bottles) on the track at Gordon's car, which angered many observers, including Fox commentators Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond.

Heublein

Heublein also held American import and distribution rights to non-alcoholic beverages such as Perrier mineral water and Rose's Lime Juice.

Homebrewing

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed into law a bill allowing home beers, which was at the time not permitted without paying the excise taxes as a holdover from the prohibition of alcoholic beverages (repealed in 1933).

Liquor Distribution Branch

The Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB), aka the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, is one of the two governmental bodies responsible for distributing alcoholic beverages and regulating and monitoring the liquor industry in the Canadian province of British Columbia within the Ministry of Justice, under Minister Suzanne Anton.

Lucy Webb Hayes

As First Lady, Hayes brought her zeal to the White House and supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions, excepting only the reception for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in 1877, at which wine was served.

Marek Kotański

Kotański was a psychologist and a psychotherapist - he organized many projects to fight against social problems and helped alcoholics, drug addicts, people with HIV, ex-prisoners and homeless people.

Matthew Flinders' Cat

It records the relationship between a homeless former lawyer and alcoholic, and a young skateboard riding boy with a troubled background, who slowly bond over tales of Matthew Flinders and "Trim", a cat who travelled with him on his voyage to explore Australia.

Naked Pueblo

::The narrator tells of his lifelong friend Chigger and his widowed alcoholic mother, and of an evening spent at San Carlos Lake.

Panaca, Nevada

It is the only municipality in Nevada to be "dry" (forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages), and the only community in Nevada besides Boulder City that prohibits gambling.

Peggy Pope

Pope is most recognizable as "the office lush" (and later, recovered alcoholic) Margaret Foster in the 1980 movie 9 to 5 starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dabney Coleman.

Quebec prohibition referendum, 1919

Prohibition was finally abolished on May 1, 1921 when the Alcoholic Beverages Act creating the Commission des liqueurs du Québec entered into force.

Robert A. Dressler

The city commission, under his leadership, passed laws forbidding open alcoholic containers on the beach side of State Road A1A and overnight parking on the beach.

Robert Berning

Under California law at the time, there were fair trade provisions for alcoholic beverages which made it illegal to sell wines at a cheaper price than branded competitors, such as Gallo's.

Sam McDowell

The character of Sam Malone, the alcoholic ex-Red Sox pitcher portrayed by Emmy Award winning actor Ted Danson in the television program Cheers, was based on the baseball life of McDowell.

Steve Rubell

Mike Myers played the part of Steve Rubell in the movie 54, much to Rubell's relatives' protest after the movie portrayed him as an overly sleazy gay man and an alcoholic junkie with mob connections.

Stuart Smalley

Stuart participates in many (sometimes fictional) programs, not limited to Overeaters Anonymous, Children of Alcoholic Parents Anonymous, and Children of Rageaholic Parents Anonymous.

The Rhodes Not Taken

Having failed to achieve her Broadway dreams, April is now an alcoholic, and goes about winning the favor of the existing club members by unconventional means, including getting Kurt (Chris Colfer) drunk and teaching Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) to shoplift.

The Shadow of a Gunman

Adolphus Grigson - an alcoholic resident of the tenement; a self-proclaimed "Orangeman", Grigson's Protestantism exemplified by his Bible and his picture of King William triumphant at the Battle of the Boyne hanging on the wall doesn't exempt him from being harassed by the Black and Tans.

The Theft

The song's lyrics are about the theft of the band's lead singer, Alex Varkatzas' "freedom", when he was an alcoholic, or in his words, "stolen shit".

The Village by the Sea

Their father is an alcoholic, which forces Hari and Lila to manage the family (as surrogate parents).

Timothy Treadwell

According to his account, he became an alcoholic after he lost the role of Woody Boyd to Woody Harrelson in the sitcom Cheers.

Tong Seal

The festivity includes dancing, consumption of the alcoholic beverage Zozu, butchering animals such as cows, goats, pigs, Mithun and other animals for the meals.

Tun Tavern

The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia contains a Tun Tavern-themed restaurant with a lunch menu, alcoholic beverages, and bread pudding.

Two Twisted

A genteel stamp trader (Sam Neill), a docile barber (Roy Billing), his rude alcoholic wife (Wendy Hughes) and a fabled stamp... will authentication lead to murder?

United States open container laws

The entertainment district along Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, is specially exempt from both Tennessee's statewide open container ban and Memphis's local open container ban, thereby permitting the open consumption of alcoholic beverages on the street.

On the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada and on the Fremont Street Experience in the city of Las Vegas, the law allows the possession and consumption on the street of any alcoholic beverage in an open container throughout the year, although the container must be plastic for certain special events such as the 4th of July and New Year's Eve.

Vid Morpurgo

At home and abroad he was known for his alcoholic beverages company "Morpurgo", largest distillery in Dalmatia.

What Price Hollywood?

Adela Rogers St. Johns loosely based her plot on the experiences of actress Colleen Moore and her husband, alcoholic producer John McCormick (1893-1961), and the life and death of director Tom Forman, who committed suicide following a nervous breakdown.

Zone of the Enders

Zone of the Enders: Dolores,i is a followup to IDOLO, following the exploits of James Links, an alcoholic trucker, who, while trying to reunite with his estranged family, discovers an Orbital Frame hidden in one of his shipping containers.


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