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...Vasili Pichul's smash hit Little Vera, the kids look like Sunset Strip punks and act as if they'd just invented adolescent angst. Vera's dad is a drunken oaf, abusing the children who hate him yet cling to him and lie to protect him. He could be the petty dictator of a pre-Gorbachev regime, and his daughter the strident soul of rebellion. In her sharp, defiant voice, you can hear the sound of breaking glasnost...
...sense, the Valdez tragedy begins not in Alaska but on Long Island, N.Y. There, in 1985, Captain Joseph Hazelwood was convicted of drunken driving. Last September in New Hampshire, he was again found guilty of driving while intoxicated. In a five-year span, his automobile driver's license was revoked three times. Hazelwood is still not permitted to steer a car, but he retained his license to command a ship -- why, no one can satisfactorily explain. In 1985, after Hazelwood informed the company about his drinking problem, Exxon sent him to an alcohol rehabilitation program. The company says...
Hazelwood had been arrested twice for drunken driving and had his license suspended three times. His mother has told The Associated Press that her son had undergone rehabilitation and that Exxon was aware of his drinking problem...
...Korea) has been tempered by sympathy for the average grunt. There is still a place, in TV's current view of Viet Nam, for courage in battle, duty and loyalty to buddies. At a champagne dinner for officers in China Beach, a Red Cross worker blurts out a drunken toast to the men in the field: "Out there, it's not your war. It's not our war. It's their war." And it's their war that TV is finally trying to tell...
Georgetown is like Harvard Square, only more crowded. It is cluttered with lots of boutiques and gourmet food stores. At night, hordes of college students descend upon the bars and restaurants and turn the whole area into a drunken brawl. Sports fans, don't miss Champions, a bar noted for its vocal support of the Redskins and the Georgetown Hoyas...