Word: boozer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse is Rising Star, played by Let's Merge. It is a great race horse now retired, not to stud but to serve as a corporate symbol with Sonny. The horse is not a boozer, but he is on tranquilizers and steroids to ease him through his form of celebrity life. When Sonny's outrage at what is being done to Rising Star burns through his cynical haze, he decides to kidnap the horse and return him to a wild state more suited to his nature...
...days of the hoop skirt, a number of experts do see signs that the wildest expressions of sexual "liberation" may be ending. "I think there's a shift back not toward conservatism but toward an end of sexuality for sexuality's sake," says Jack S. Boozer, professor of religion at Emory University in Atlanta. "What you had in the '60s was like being thrown into a forest and told there was no infallible reference point, everything was equal. The person in that forest is just as culturally deprived as the victim of malnutrition or child abuse...
...offering is THE TEXAS WHEELERS (ABC, Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). They are yet another extended rural family, but their resemblance to the warm, wonderful Waltons ("the only people who put mayonnaise on their venison," as Johnny Carson once said) goes no further. Dad (Jack Elam) is a shaggy boozer with an itchy foot and no talent at all for drawing uplifting morals from life's little disasters. "Hard work gives a man character-and a slight stoop," he says. Mom is dead, and the head of the family is Truckie (Gary Busey) a 24-year-old high school...
...duologue as a monologue by Maggie, for she talks more at him than with him. Brick, whose tippling has resulted in a broken leg, is always physically present, with crutch and cast, but his mind is almost always elsewhere. Maggie's babbling and bitching merely bounce off her boozer...
...recent dinner dance at a newly dedicated Al-Anon Club, a woman was heard to remark that it was not she but her husband who had been the problem drinker. She herself had never tasted alcohol in all her life. "Oh, what a shame," replied a veteran boozer sadly. "Then you'll never know how good it feels to recover...