Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failed, miserably, to follow the Success Recipe for Innovators. First, think up a novel idea or approach. Then play it so obnoxiously that people are forced to pay attention. When they have lent at least an ear, introduce more novelty. If you can't think up anything new, get drunk with Brian Eno and find out his ideas. Adam Ant started out on the right track with his first two American albums, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming. On the new disk, however, he slits New Wave in the throat...
Things get ugly once. During the intermission hobnobbing session, scuffle breaks out, as a roaringly drunk patron takes on in rapid succession a woman, her escort, a bouncer and numerous gallant penguins. The Cambridge cops pull up, and, after a messy struggle shove the man, his mouth bleeding, into the squad...
Winning is usually easy. In civil cases, the standard of proof is lower than in criminal ones. Says Yale Law Professor Joseph Bishop: "You've got to prove only that, more probably than not, the defendant murdered your deceased." In criminal doubt." court, the Drunk test is drivers have "beyond a long been targets reasonable gets of such suits...
...than 200 offenses, including stealing turnips, associating with gypsies, cutting down a tree or picking pockets. "Hanging days" were public holidays, and in 1807 a crowd of 40,000 became so frenzied at an execution that nearly a hundred were trampled to death. Frequently both victims and executioner were drunk, and occasionally the job was botched, with the condemned man being hanged two or even three times. Afterward the crowds surged toward the corpse, because it and the scaffold were believed to have curative powers...
...ignores fire safety statutes. The most immediately and measurably dangerous scofflawry, however, also happens to be the most visible. The culprit is the American driver, whose lawless activities today add up to a colossal public nuisance. The hazards range from routine double parking that jams city streets to the drunk driving that kills some 25,000 people and injures at least 650,000 others yearly. Illegal speeding on open highways? New surveys show that on some interstate highways 83% of all drivers are currently ignoring the federal 55 m.p.h. speed limit...