Word: boozer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Britain), hotel (Australia), boozer (Britain, Australia, New Zealand...
...where will Comedy Central's next breakout hit come from? Don't look to Amy Sedaris, who co-created this leaden satire of after-school specials. Sedaris also stars as a 46-year-old who has returned to high school after 32 years as "a boozer, a user and a loser." Just what did the network find funny? The name of the school's African-American principal, Mr. Blackman? The catatonic geriatric behind the wheel of a car? Maybe Sedaris' single comic affectation, a grotesque overbite? Take Mom's advice: Avoid Strangers with Candy...
...came in maybe once or twice every three weeks or so for a drink or two." Another employee at the Hemingway agrees. "Occasionally he would have a special cocktail I prepared for him, and at hotel staff parties he would drink," he recalls. "But he was not a big boozer." In the private Ritz Club downstairs, an employee says, "everyone here knows what really happened, but we're afraid to talk." He adds, "Monsieur Paul was not responsible. He just took orders...
...much hyped new memoir, Drinking: A Love Story, 37-year-old journalist Caroline Knapp unravels her tumultuous past life as a "high-functioning" alcoholic. The term is one she borrows from A.A. parlance, and it refers to the sort of boozer who lives well above the gutter, getting good grades at fine colleges, meeting deadlines, summering on Martha's Vineyard. Like most writers and filmmakers who have chronicled the middle-class drinking life, Knapp writes from the prevailing modern perspective that alcoholism is another challenge to be surmounted, a demon to be confronted, a battle...
...walking into," he says. "You're in a gang neighborhood. You knock on a door and you can find yourself in a room full of people. Maybe the woman has a black eye. Where are the kids? You're keeping real cool, trying to assess the situation." Bernadette Boozer, who works some of the toughest housing projects in Washington, explains that because so many of the families she visits are on federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children, "when you identify yourself as a child-protective person you immediately pose a threat, not only to the children, but a threat...