Word: boozers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the "morning after" rolls around, many an overachieving boozer prays for a hangover cure. Now there is a new answer to that prayer: Hangover Heaven. That is the name of a unique establishment opened in Atlanta by Chiropractor Erl P. Harris. In it, says Harris, any sufferer can cure his hangover for a mere $15, plus a routine $5 tip to an attending angel...
...Rider, for whatever that's worth. The movie falls into two parts. In the first, an oil rigger played by Jack Nicholson lives the beer-drinking, bowling, broad-screwing life which most screenwriters and intellectuals imagine occurs in lower-middle working class settings. But we shortly discover that the boozer is also a piano player manque: he is a wandering, gifted member of an extraordinarily talented musical family. Nicholson is the prototype Alienated One, a sort of prodigal son with balls, and his journey up the West Coast toward Washington and his family is also a journey away from...
...made the man a blinded, shorn, bewildered Samson who wrenches at the pillars of his doom in one last mighty agony. In Daddy Goodness, a play about a religious con artist, Gunn fashioned a composite portrait of a store-front Father Divine, a Harlem dandy and an irresistible lecher, boozer and rogue...