Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less red ink than would have flowed from the budget proposals that Reagan presented in February. The balanced-budget amendment allows Congress and the President to reassure voters that they are, at bottom, all for fiscal responsibility. Says Democratic Congressman James Shannon of Massachusetts: "It's like getting drunk and going to the police and saying, 'Lock me up, I can't help myself...
Mortal danger remains a remote but real possibility. Wilkinson collars a drunk driver of awesome size and manages to coax him to jail. Later that night, the prisoner wakes up in his cell and rips the toilet out of the wall with his bare hands. At his trial, the man explains what happened: "A little energized particle broke off a star in a galaxy somewhere far away and shot down and came through the open window, and when it hit the toilet, BOOM, the whole thing blew up. I could have been killed...
...feeding him with periodic refrigerator raids. The two become so close that they even begin to feel the same things. When E.T., upstairs, accidentally opens an umbrella, Elliott, downstairs, jumps in surprise. The next day E.T., left home alone, discovers the wonders of earthling beer. Elliott, at school, gets drunk. In fact, Elliott, with his teenaged brother and little sister, Gertie, succeed with childlike grace where modern science would probably have failed, keeping an alien alive and helping him get back in touch with his species...
Locals rent out their front yards for as much as $10 a day as park-and-party space. Spots go quickly. Liquor stores and Kentucky Fried Chicken stay open 24 hours a day, and people sit on lawn chairs, drunk, staring at the traffic streaming into town. On 30th St., across from one of the four gates leading into the raceway infield, you can walk the length of each block on the tops of mobile homes...
...infield is for men. Black-leathered motorcycle riders, general hell raisers and frat boys down for a look at the fun all stake out their separate claim Turn One is the "Snake Pit," the motorcycle mecca, Harley Heaven. The bikers get drunk, get crazy, get naked, get sick, and get beat up for the amusement of corporate executives sitting in the luxury $30.000 boxes across the track. Turns Two and Three are slightly less populated but boast a steady level of determined merrymaking...