Geisha may also engage the guests in a variety of drinking games, at which they excel, almost always resulting in guests getting progressively sozzled.

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The combination of sozzled drivers and paralytic pedestrians gives South Africa a road death toll, per mile travelled, that is ten times higher than America's.

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The video of Mr Galliano's rant suggests that he was sozzled.

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Its tongue-in-cheek fable of a porcupine that has to kill for its human double is ostensibly written by the same sozzled scribe, who is himself called Broken Glass.

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Elsewhere, "Adigbedoto" by Gnonnas Pedro glides on reverb-sozzled guitars that seem to owe as much to the Peruvian pop-rock style known as chicha as it does to any Beninese tradition.

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When Bad pulls into Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a gig, he crosses paths with an aspiring journalist named Jean, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who just happens to recognize the good that's in Bad, even if the guy is grizzled, sozzled, and wreathed in cigarette smoke.

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In our collective cultural imagination, however, Oxbridge means the dreaming spires - a kind of massive Bullingdon Club where rich undergraduates still flaunt their boaters and blazers, and dotty dons get sozzled every night on the college port (while hoping to avoid the Inspector Morse-style murders in the quad).

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