Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who do not love Fidel have few options: wait until he dies, or flee. Ricardo and Raul are scheming to escape by sea, when they are not drunk on bootleg rum. Quaffing cocktails and beer at Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find...
...Orlando, Florida, the 30,000-sq.-ft. Coalition Campus offers one-stop- shopping to the area's homeless. Unlike most cities' shelters, which typically screen out people who are drunk or drugged, the Orlando facility provides beds for as many as 700 people, no matter how sorry their state. The facility, which is open around the clock, offers substance abuse and mental- health counseling, plus adult education courses and such basic amenities as telephones and mail service. All this is free, and people can stay as long as they want. Since opening last September, the $1.3 million-a-year facility...
...father is more volatile. When Sharon claims she can't remember her seducer's name because she was drunk, he snaps, "I was drunk when I met your mother, and I remember her name." But he's essentially a tolerant, loving man, and it's the growth of his consciousness that provides the movie's connective tissue. At first acceptant of Sharon's news, he angers when he discovers who the father is. But when Sharon tries to provide a saving lie -- he was really a sailor off a Spanish ship -- it doesn't sit well with...
Remember when all those preppies got drunk and threw up all over the place during the Head of the Charles Regatta? Well, the security guards at the entrances to the Yard could regularly patrol the gates with blood-hounds to ensure that not one stray, camera-toting Yalie is allowed to wander through. In addition, we could demand presentation of the proper papers at each entry door. It's already standard operating procedure in small Communist countries...
...tour guide telling you that the John Harvard statue is second only to the Statue of Liberty as the most photographed statue in the country. Try visiting at 2 a.m. on a Friday night for a unique photo-op of what some Harvard students do when they're drunk...