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Word: drunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is wrong with '70s youth culture--the noise, the drugs, the posing--presented as an orange-haired, made-up androgyne. His dabbling beyond pop music simply stretched his dilettantism further than anyone else's, and the dissipated exile he played in The Man Who Fell to Earth sitting drunk at poolside in the film's final scene seemed his logical resting place. To at least one defender of high kultur writing in the New York Times Book Review last year, Bowie of all our entertainers most perfectly personified decadence...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Messing With Major Tom | 10/8/1980 | See Source »

...take her to North Andover. She kept passing out and I ended up about 20 miles past Andover because she kept telling me to 'go straight, go straight.' To make a long story short, I ended up taking her back to the Homesteader. She said she was too drunk to go home. I finally got a room for her and she gave me about $100 because I'd been with her for about five hours and probably put 100 miles on the cab. So I got a lot out of that ride...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: Taxi Driver: Tales of a Nocturnal Veteran | 10/8/1980 | See Source »

...golden boys (they're still practicing outside in LA) probably could have eaten MBTA cinder blocks and drunk from the Charles, and it still wouldn't have affected their performance much...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: UCLA Gives Hosts 29-5 Polo Lesson | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

...lovely wooded area of New Jersey known as the Pine Barrens, more than 100 wells have been poisoned by chemicals leaching from the 135-acre Jackson Township dump. James McCarthy, who had drunk well water for ten years, had one kidney removed in 1977, and now has trouble with the other. Tara, his daughter, died in 1975 of a kidney cancer when she was nine months old. A 16-year-old neighbor lost a kidney to cancer; another neighbor is on dialysis for kidney problems; a third also has a kidney ailment. No scientific link has been established between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poisoning of America | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...cutting room floor). And, like a lot of pop music figures nowadays, Waits is open to starring in another venture for the silver screen, though he disdains being typecast. "The thing is, once you get any kind of image -- I've gotten countless calls to play a drunk Irish piano player which is, like, not very challenging. I'd much prefer to play an axe murderer...

Author: By Stephen X. Rea, | Title: The Tom Waits Cross-Country Marathon Interview | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

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