Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bird cage for the son of the wealthiest man in the village. When the father balks at paying, Balthazar gives it to the boy as a present. When the poor donate to the rich, the social order begins to tremble. The powerful man feels humiliated, and the carpenter gets drunk, confused and boisterous: "We have to make a lot of things to sell to the rich before they die. All of them are sick, and they're going to die. They're so screwed up they can't even get angry any more...
...terrible thing when you're got some three-day-old kid who believes in Santa Claus, and you have to go tell him there's no Santa Claus because his father's drunk," says Globe reporter Douglas S. Crocket, who has been working with Globe Santa for 24 years and says he was once a Globe Santa beneficiary himself...
After 14 years of fame as the best known drink in Harvard Square, the Hong Kong lounge's popular scorpion bowl may be doomed to legend if Gov. Michael S. Dukakis next week signs a proposal intended to reduce drunk driving accidents...
...Stroot, who is on the membership committee, volunteered that Henry's Hideaway had had to evict only one drunk in the six months it has been open. "He's probably here. I'll point him out. Well, I guess he isn't. He's usually hanging all over that gal there in the back...
...table in tears, or he would get up in a cold, self-righteous rage." To get away from home, he took teaching assignments at the University of Iowa and then Boston University and philandered openly: "My father had discovered groupies." In Boston, he was visibly and often embarrassingly drunk. Notes Susan: "We stayed away from him, and so did most people...