Writing on the Web site The Millions, David Masciotra said that Karl Ove Knausgaard's account of his teen-age pursuits — drinking beer, kissing girls, playing electric guitar — in the "My Struggle" novels is "universally relatable".
Drinking: A Serious Pursuit Like the casino that operates when the vessel is outside the three-mile limit, drinking is a given that may astonish first-timers.
People sit around playing cards, or Trivial Pursuit, drinking wine or beer, and the counter opens for the sale of odds and ends.
But South Padre offers a strange combination of relatively adult pursuits — the drinking, the sexuality — and a pervasive infantilization.
Just because they were borrowed for more genteel country pursuits, like drinking at yacht clubs, no one should confuse them with formal wear.
Directed by Luke McCutcheon and Michael Yablonski, and featuring actors cast from Craigslist, the clip follows a group of elderly protagonists as they engage in youthful pursuits including drinking in parking lots, taking selfies with their friends, and hitting up after-hours spots.
By 1737, Huet had decorated nearly every surface (paneled walls, doors and ceiling) with a complex allegorical design in which monkeys, fashionably dressed, are depicted in aristocratic pursuits: boar hunting, drinking chocolate, doing their hair, dancing and singing.
Ball courts, bowling greens and groves were often added within the precincts of colleges during the 17th century so that undergraduates could amuse themselves under the watchful eyes of their tutors, rather than indulge in forbidden pursuits such as drinking in alehouses.
The legislation has caused some bother for the government as opponents claim the new regime will cause a spike in the popular British leisure pursuit of "binge drinking".
The funny thing was that Nick, back before the folks croaked, had been mad for drinking, going out, and the general pursuit of hell-raising.
