Word: boozers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billy Markham is a talking blues about a failed songwriter who decides the devil could not possibly be any worse than the music publishers and producers who have thwarted his career. A gambler, boozer, womanizer and general hellion, Markham tosses away eternity in exchange for a single, futile roll of the dice, then squanders what reprieves are offered in unrepentant revelry. He nonetheless stumps Satan twice, escaping the first time and settling down the second time into a perverse sort of domestic bliss. Markham's good-ole-boy world view is distasteful: women are treated as property, and both defeats...
Even as Hazelwood's reputation as a boozer grew, so did his image as the best captain in Exxon's fleet. Exxon management, however, was increasingly unhappy with the talented young skipper, less for his drinking than because of his headstrong, independent manner. Like the old-time captains he modeled himself after, Hazelwood shunned paperwork, company politics and extensive contacts with the M.B.A. executives who were increasingly chipping away at the traditional authority of shipmasters. "Joe didn't have Exxon tattooed under his eyelids," says a high-ranking Exxon engineer. "He'd make his own judgments and act accordingly. That...
Heavy drinkers have been a continuing specter in American public life. Luckily, there are no episodes in which the Republic's fate was threatened by drunkenness. Our standards have gone up, slowly the first 180 years, dramatically the past 20. Off the job or on, a political boozer is apt to be a loser. That's not to say teetotaling assures success...
Outside is one of the post's main tourist attractions: Clay Henry, a beer- drinking goat whose pen abuts the shaded porch. A boozer of 14 years' standing, Clay Henry picks up an opened can or bottle in his mouth and downs the contents in seconds. "He has drunk as much as 24 cans in a single day," says Linda Garcia, a clerk at the post. CLAY HENRY FOR MAYOR, reads a sign on the fridge that holds the beer...
...achievers. But this hardly represents a solution to a community's problems. Rather, it just moves those problems from the classroom onto the street, where the dropouts drift into trouble or plain despair. "In many cases the school was the most stabilizing factor in their lives," says Alcena Boozer, head of an outreach program for dropouts in Portland, Ore. "Then that's gone, and nothing's there...