Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent over a police and army raid on a plantation in Chihuahua, owned by the two drug dealers, in which 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned. Fonseca added that the intention had been to question Camarena and offer him a bribe. He also claimed that he was too drunk to talk to Camarena until the next day, when Caro Quintero allegedly told him, "Well, see if you can still reach him, because he is no longer speaking." The agent, Fonseca explained, had been brutally beaten, but was still alive. "Now you have done it!" Fonseca said he screamed...
...this sounds dumb, it is because Foreman wants it to; his humor is self-effacing. He is neither dim nor punch- drunk. He has a sense of pride and confidence that seems to accompany enormous physical strength and the conviction that one is doing something right (financial solvency might play some part in this cheerful outlook as well, that and extremely early retirement). In any event, all Foreman wants to do is save souls and help young boys out of the gutter, his admitted childhood playground. "I saw some of the fellows I used to drink with standing around...
...Viet Nam, the G.I.'s absurdist, shrugging slogan was "It don't mean nuthin'." Today Jim Garnett, a Seattle carpenter who served as an Army supply clerk, says, "It was just something we all went through. Like when you were a kid and your old man comes home drunk at night. He wakes everybody up, everybody knows what's going on, and it makes everyone real uncomfortable. But in the morning, no one talked about...
...grow numb, Type Ts drink to shed inhibitions and are prone to act disruptively while under the influence. Says Farley: "It's experimenting with forbidden fruit." He finds that Type Ts have twice as many automobile accidents as non- Ts, and many even make a point of driving while drunk for the added excitement and risk. "We have become accustomed to the idea that Type A individuals are dangerous to themselves," says Farley, referring to the shorthand designation for hard-driving people who have a tendency to heart attacks. "Type T individuals are doubly dangerous--to themselves and others...
Nonetheless, the jokes keep on coming. Titters resound even in what are meant to be grim moments: the exposure and imprisonment of one of Eugene's barracks mates as a homosexual; a nervy confrontation between a drunk drill sergeant wielding a loaded pistol and a raw recruit whom the officer despises. The detached Eugene, moreover, proves Arnold's attack true by being offstage during these scenes; he is so passive that the viewer may long for a play that focuses more on Arnold. Inevitably, the sequel lacks some of the roundedness and universality of Brighton Beach: a military stopover cannot...