Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, ten Albuquerque lawbreakers, instead of being sentenced to jail or to a toothless probation, are obliged to stay home every night. No police sentries are stationed outside, families are not required to snitch. Rather, confinement is enforced by remote control. Strapped to the ankle of each offender (mainly drunk drivers, all nonviolent adults on work-release) is a transmitter tuned in to a device on the home telephone. The phone in turn is connected to a computer downtown. It will monitor whether the electronically shack led prisoner strays more than a few hundred yards from his telephone. "Every morning...
...novel Albuquerque pilot program is the doing of a local judge. Says District Attorney Steven Schiff: "It ought to make everybody happy. Like a jail term, it keeps these people inside so they don't drive drunk." The operating cost of the contraption, $70 a month, will be paid by each plugged-in prisoner. Says Goss: "I think most people would pay to stay out of jail...
...comical "If, On Your First Love's Wedding Day" races through a soap-opera study of a particularly confusing and blue hour. Williamson seems cheerfully to throw up his hands at the end. "What do you say? You say, My first love got married today, if you're drunk enough," Indeed...
Much of the satire is directed outside the domestic foibles at the Law School, deflating police brutality ("Confess you were drunk or I'll beat your brains out!"), spies, and finally the Law School's practically all-white faculty. One purported personal ad read onstage by Professor Robert Clark comes from Professor Edley, "an all Black male in the basement of Langdell," and states that the sender is tired of sixty-five ambivalent white companions...
...story wholeheartedly. . . Next time you see her she'll be in deep, going to fortunetellers, slipping his name into every other sentence; with this mention of the name there will be a mushy sound to her voice. . . Then comes the onset of gloom, the doubts . . . She will get drunk, and sign up for rolfing, swim therapy, gymnastics. In none of this is she so exceptional. She does what women...