"There was a little urination in one of the local fountains and a drunken evening with the hobbits," Mr. Wood said.

Trading drunken evenings for healthy days.

One night, "we had a fairly drunken evening of 'casting' at a dinner in Santa Barbara," he recalled, laughing.

But food was not the reason one went to this restaurant - it was the atmosphere: discreet, exclusive, confidential, perfect for long drunken evenings.

Other boys sheepishly admitted they knew people who still had one-night stands on drunken evenings, picking up girls at the local discos.

Curtis comes up with an alternative story: the confession was actually made some time after the acquittal during a drunken evening at Barney's home.

Pooley had crawled into more than a few Morrises on drunken evenings past when further staggering home looked out of the question.

From then on they met separately in wine bars, reporting back intermittently on the drunken evenings they had had.

One of his men let this slip during a drunken evening that I'd arranged in their honor.

He didn't really want to give in, and go through another drunken evening, this one beginning much earlier, at noon.