Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miss Daisy and, starting next month, Rex Harrison in a revival of The Admirable Crichton. Those with a taste for undeservedly obscure classics can see two sprightly, acerbic Restoration comedies at R.S.C. headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, George Farquhar's The Constant Couple and William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, plus Noel Coward's Easy Virtue, ably done in the West End. At the National, Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun, a 19th century Irish separatist tract masquerading as a farcical melodrama, proves its author a deft orchestrator of tone and plot...
Aristocratic Cuban exiles puzzle over the unfamiliar foods given to them as charity by some Dallas Presbyterians. A Southwest farm worker becomes obsessed with breeding the perfect fighting cock. A Manhattan drug dealer demands that his son stay off drugs -- or, if he must get high, that he do it in his father's company, at home. A Chicano woman struggles to bring to justice the Texas police chief who murdered her common-law husband...
Another entrant to the list is Running Scared with Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal. The crime-fighting duo takes on one gangster, who (you guessed it) is a Latin American drug dealer longing to control the Chicago drug supply...
...clothing distributor in the Bronx had found it cheaper to turn rejects over to a trucker deadheading back to North Carolina than to dump the stuff in New York. Enterprising Wheeler-Dealer Lee ("Red") Wright spread the bales over a one-acre field. Last week Wright was collecting a $5 parking fee, then permitting ragpickers to take away whatever they could carry. There were a few drawbacks: no dressing rooms, no alterations, and the "as is" nature of the merchandise, a condition likely to worsen as time and weather take their toll. But never mind. Bargain hunters jamming local roads...
...perhaps sale of drugs, while retaining some form of legal disapproval. Such a halfway solution might accelerate the problems that would come from legalization without solving most of those that arise from the current tough drug laws. Author Claude Brown (Manchild in the Promised Land), himself a reformed drug dealer, suggests decriminalizing the sale of drugs by hospitals and clinics in order to "deglamorize ((narcotics use)) and associate it with being sick. That would turn the kids...