Word: drunkenness
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...other Exxon ships knew of it. "Ever since I had known of Joe, I heard he had alcohol problems," says James Shiminski, an Exxon chief mate until 1986. "He had a reputation for partying, ashore and on the ship." In 1984, while off duty, Hazelwood was arrested for drunken driving in Huntington, and later convicted. Police say he was leaving a parking lot of a tavern where he had been attending a bachelor party for his brother Joshua, when his van smashed into a car. Hazelwood left the scene of the accident, only to be arrested by police...
...chance to talk." That seems to have suited Hazelwood, who had always been reticent about his feelings. Last year he and his wife Suzanne, whom he married in 1969 (they have one daughter), were on the verge of divorce. In September Hazelwood was again arrested and convicted for drunken driving, and his license was revoked...
Michelle Pfeiffer, an Oscar nominee this year for Dangerous Liaisons, makes her stage debut as the grieving countess Olivia. Jeff Goldblum (The Fly) is her pettish steward Malvolio, John Amos (Roots) her drunken uncle Sir Toby Belch and Gregory Hines (The Cotton Club) Toby's companion in ribaldry, the jester Feste. Stephen Collins (Tattinger's) is the duke who desires Olivia, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money) the girl-masquerading-as- a -pageboy sent to plead his case. Among other screen and stage stalwarts rounding out the troupe is Charlaine Woodard (Ain't Misbehavin') as the merrily scheming...
...press to waive normal strictures of taste and delicacy in the pursuit of rumor. But until recently, journalists tended to judge members of Congress by a more humane standard. It was not too long ago that a prominent legislator could be carried off the Senate floor in a drunken stupor without a word of his public intoxication appearing in the press. Such journalistic self-censorship certainly did little to promote sobriety among public officials, but it did help create an almost unimaginable era of political comity in Congress...
...student say in University policy. Others sank into harried East Coast jobs, working at the office well past nine at night, shielded by layers of secretaries. For almost all, Harvard was reduced to a line on a resume, a loan to repay, an annual fundraising plea, some drunken anecdotes, a few bad memories...