Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Oscar says "All women are whores," in his drunken stupor, Wertmuller would have the audience believe that this is the comic entirety of the male anthem. Actually, Wertmuller is in error. The complete macho male anthem is that all women are whores, lesbians, or frigid. By merely introducing lesbianism or bisexuality in the women characters, this pretentious film does nothing to change men's stereotypical views of female sexuality it merely confirms one aspect of a nasty but common world view. To effectively make a feminist statement, one would have to introduce issues beyond the mundane comic plane...
...swing into an all-night clip joint and hand a drunken-looking barber five dollars and your bottle of Jack Daniel...
SENTENCED. Clarence Busch, 52, drunken driver whose 1980 killing of 13-year- old Cari Lightner in Fair Oaks, Calif., prompted her mother Candy to form Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD); to four years in prison for crashing his car while intoxicated last April into an auto driven by Carrie Sinnott, causing her minor injuries; in Sacramento. After his conviction in the Lightner case, Busch spent about 2 1/2 years in prison, work camps and halfway houses before his parole last February...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the use of roadblocks by the State Police to catch drunken drivers is constitutional if Court-set guidelines were...
...extreme reading of the Fourth Amendment" to say that the Constitution protects drivers from being stopped under any circumstances, said Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Lawrence H. Tribe. The "notion of reasonableness" has to take account of the seriousness of drunken driving as a threat to highway safety, he said...