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...Papalimberis, a drunk marine came from the bar and demanded George give him a shave. George complied, sat his customer in a chair and promptly threw hot towels over his face. The marine fell asleep and after he woke up. Papalimberis told him that he had been shaved. The drunkard paid George and came back the next day (drunk again) demanding a shave...
...dissipated libertine whose aspirations have all plummeted. Throughout the play he talks loudly and eagerly and when he sits down he slings his leg over his chair and swings it. But all of a sudden in the last scene, he turns into an inebriated mass of insecurity. The quintessential drunkard, he teeters and stumbles as he walks and rolls his eyes as he declares: "'My name is Might Have Been...
...workman's jacket and some cigarette butts have been stuffed into the walls instead of insulation. A laborer falls from scaffolding because someone has, in exchange for a bottle of vodka, sold the wooden planks that he should be standing on and replaced them with rotting boards. A drunkard who is supposed to be demoted for causing an uproar in the factory holds on to his job because the boss fears he might walk out and leave the place understaffed...
...misplaced allegiances are not without justification, though. By denying his links with the West. Austin is seeking also to escape his and Lee's parents, who represent a warped flip side of the American dream. Their father, who remains offstage, is a drunkard who once put his false teeth in a doggie bag filled with chow mein, and then left the bag in a bar along a Mexican highway. Their mother, who returns from Alaska in the final scene, is perfectly tacky, uncomprehending, and well-meaning. She appears terribly excited because she read in a newspaper that Picasso is visiting...
...then Reed lets loose his anger with songs about a rapist, a masochist, a drunkard and a man going insane. Reed paints the latter two characters as victims of society. His wrath for the rapist, though, knows no end The subject of "The Gun" is a "dirty animal" who won't hesitate to "blow your brains out" to satisfy his urges. Even more frightening and intense are the almost unbearable lyrics of the album's title...