Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same cannot always be said of the product brewed by his competitors. Says Fred Murrell of the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division: "We've found them making it in hog pens-harder for an agent to sniff it out that way. Sometimes there are rotted varmints in the shine. Why, the basic commodity is so raunchy, the public hasn't the foggiest idea how bad the stuff really is." However, moonshining is becoming less and less of a problem. In 1959 Government agents "cut" (smashed up) 9,225 stills; the number smashed dwindled...
Current plays written by blacks about blacks display strange and interesting aspects of the prickly pride of the outcast. They almost brazenly embrace some of the least admirable notions about blacks held by many whites -that they can be lazy, foulmouthed deadbeats addicted to alcohol, gambling and promiscuity. Another aspect of black drama is that it bears a surprising relationship to the class-conscious plays of the '30s. The manner is naturalistic. The tone is hortatory. The focus is not on individuals but on a downtrodden group undergoing a consciousness-raising exercise...
Sometimes murder can be indirect, an act that Psychoanalyst Joost Meerloo calls psychic homicide: consciously or unconsciously, the murderer pushes someone into suicide. Meerloo cites an engineer who had struggled "all his life with a harsh, domineering and alcoholic father." On a final visit, he took along a bottle of barbiturates, suggesting that they could "cure" his father's addiction. In combination with alcohol, the prescription was fatal...
...Tripoli to make sure that Koranic laws are being obeyed. He has personally closed down nightclubs whose acts he thought lewd. Last July he took an incognito look-in at a noisy wiener roast for the teen-age children of U.S. oil-company personnel to make certain that no alcohol was being served and that no Libyans were present...
...movie chosen to be about this clash of cultures, then Rosebud might have been hard-edged and fairly exciting. Instead it watches Danny try to make friends with an Indian named Frank (Robert Forster), who is consumed by angst and alcohol. Danny also pays a lot of attention to Frank's ex-wife (Victoria Racimo), a situation that eventually gives Frank an excuse to rack himself up in the final scenes...