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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...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Stomping on Breslin's Ground | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Deathtrap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Smoked | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Bit Wild in the Big City | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Night in Shining Horror | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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