Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began his presidency by emphasizing high standards, found himself so quickly saddled with so many embarrassments? Part of the answer is that, ethics aside, friendship and political alliances go a long way with Bush -- and with the rest of Washington. If Tower does not show up in public drunk, with an Iranian arms merchant on one arm and a female KGB officer on the other, he may make...
...mainstream TV attitudes. High- ranking officers and other authority figures are mostly buffoons, insensitive martinets or corrupt sleaze balls. Heroism, at least as the military tries to market it, is usually a sham; public relations is the name of the game. A lieutenant in Tour of Duty gets drunk in a bar and empties the place by wildly firing his gun. A few seconds later, a bomb explodes inside, and he is hailed as a hero. Notes a smarmy major: "You're the first good publicity the command has had since...
...evidence of misconduct strong enough to swing a majority of the Senate against Tower. But at minimum, the momentum has leaked out of his confirmation drive. Tower already has the unenviable distinction of being the first Cabinet hopeful in memory to be asked point-blank if he is a drunk...
During the game, legend has it that some crazy fans--either daring or drunk--threw some dead bunnies...
When, as now, there is hope ready for harvesting, excellent ideas become especially fertile. The examples of some national heroes -- Candy Lightner, founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving; Bruce Ritter, father of Covenant House for kids in trouble; and Eugene Lang, whose I Have a Dream program has spawned innumerable imitations -- all proved what extraordinary good can be reaped from one person's crusade. Faced with a desperate need, many new volunteers see not only a moral challenge but also a tactical one: to do as much as possible with as little as possible, and then share the idea...