Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to go every weekend," Avery says. "The place had a lot of character--holes in the seats, paint falling off the ceiling, drunken bums." After sophomore year the cinema was renovated, and split into three screens, two for first runs. "Suburbia," he scoffs...
...hysteria continued for the better part of the next five hours, with groups of drunken people screaming. "Hoya!" and "Sazal" at one another, across rooms, across streets, across the whole campus...
...working-class enclave in South Philadelphia that seems all too real: narrow houses, streets, lives; a place where the Hollywood Bar, the social hub of the area, does "half its business before noon." Some of the novel's best times are spent at the Hollywood. Mickey hears a drunken woman praise his deceased stepson: "He was a nice youngster. He never broke into nobody's house in the neighborhood...
...smiles from viewers with its unlikely shapes, Pop art palette and a look of imminent collapse. Table legs lean toward disaster and supports bend as if fatigued. Spanish Designer Javier Mariscal's glass-and-red-metal trolley, called Hilton (all Memphis furniture is named for hotels), has a drunken, unsteady look due to its listing frame, although it is actually serviceable and solid. Italian Designer Michele De Lucchi's marble table, Sebastopole, seems to balance precariously on two brown bowling balls...
Your story [Jan. 16] and letter writer both missed the point about my defense of people accused of drunken driving. All my clients are referred to a certified alcohol counselor, who prescribes a treatment program that I make sure they follow. You cannot execute these poor souls. Meeting a good lawyer forces drunken drivers to face and finally deal with their alcohol problem...