Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dennis Hamill infringes on quite a few of the Breslin patents--there is a fat drunk named Fabulous Murphy who pirouettes every block to prevent the victims of his latest scams from sneaking up with blunt instruments. Murphy buys drinks from a bartender named Oscar, except everyone calls him Ocar because he once tatooed himself and left out a letter. There's a big-hearted oaf of a criminal who marries a hooker because he loves her, and there's his mother who thinks love is eggplant parmagiana. The local police force features a sentimental cop, name of 'Ankles,' because...
Next morning the rescue party found three women alive under a paloverde tree. Sprawled about them were the bodies of ten women and a smuggler. Suitcases had been ripped apart in a search for anything with moisture. The group had drunk perfume and aftershave lotion. Some had been hallucinating, swallowing sand they thought was water. One woman cried: "The coyotes stole my baby!" The agents scrambled to find the infant, only to learn days later that the child had been left in El Salvador...
AMERICAN HUMOR traditionally smells of liquor. There is no comic worthy of the Chateau de Ville who doesn't do a drunk routine, staggering, his speech slurring, his audience howling. But new markets are always opening up; in the last decade, dope has starred in a number of movies. Rarely has it played a bigger role than in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, the touching story of three men, half a dozen women, and a duffle bag of marijuana...
...supervision and little to do, particularly in the suburbs, youngsters are primed for trouble. Explains Criminology Professor Louise Shelley of American University in Washington, D.C.: "One of the stereotypes in the U.S.S.R. is the kid who lives on the edge of Moscow, comes in for the day, gets drunk in the train station and goes a bit wild in the big city...
...hotel mananger tells Jack, the winter caretaker, a drunk named Delbert Grady, succumbed to "cabin fever" and axed his wife and two daughters into little bits and stacked them in a corner smiles; he's a rational person who's been on the wagon for five months now. He assures the hotel manager that his wife Wendy and his son Danny will love the Overlook...