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...recently deceased mother and reformed drunkard. Hard luck has sent his father and him to the slums of the South Side of Chicago. Riley's introduction to his new home, a plunge compared to his semi-comfortable childhood world, is a gang battle involving knives and near-death in the yard of his high school...
Greg Schaffer dominates the stage and the evening as a whole. In a solo performance of "The Ladies Who Lunch," he convincingly plays the part of a rowdy drunkard. Simultaneously bitter and giddy, Schaffer uses his alcohol bottle and shot glass to emphasize his emotional waverings. A raspy timbre gives his voice extra oomph, and Schaffer deliberately exaggerates his performance in the classic "ham" style to please the crowd...
...climax of the novel occurs at the actual funeral of Matilde Neruda. Thousands of communists, Leftists and friends converge on the local cemetery to protest and to show respect for the dead, including the perennial drunkard Juan Lopez, or Lopito, as he is known to his friends including Vera and Torre. Angered by a policeman's laughter at his incredibly ugly and clumsy daughter, Lopito picks a fight with the machine gun man and is put in jail without bail...
...tough hide not to be offended by the ad parody that it first ran in 1983. Taking off on a Campari Liqueur campaign that featured celebrities reminiscing about their "first time" -- with the drink, that is -- Hustler ran a spoof that portrayed the Rev. Jerry Falwell as a drunkard whose first sexual encounter was a tryst with his mother in an outhouse. Outrageous? Yes. Funny? Hardly. Plausible? No. But just in case, small print at the foot of the page warned the less discerning reader, "Ad parody -- not to be taken seriously...
Alcoholic perception is like that, in a hundred insidious and distorting ways. All of them are aimed at protecting a drunkard's notion that he is possessed of free will. My drinking buddies and I agreed that we did not have a drinking problem. Everything in our increasingly narrow world, though, was a problem that required drinking: the wife, the kids, the boss, the government. In dingy watering holes from which everyone with a healthy life to lead had gone home, we conspired to overlook the obvious, that our bodily cells were addicted, and our minds were along...