Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cambridge's Most Wanted: A couple rents a car and sneaks away for the weekend without informing either set of parents. They get rear-ended in Vermont by a drunk escaped convict and have to call their folks from a police station...
...show, The Honeymooners. In THE GREAT ONE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through the maze of lies the funnyman wove around his tangled life, including one woozy story about two newlyweds and Gleason, all drunk, and a goat that may have been sober...
...squandering what he calls his "credit of trust" with the Russian people. He has been known simply to drop out of sight for days at a time -- leaving squabbling subordinates to govern. Opponents have raised questions about the President's reputed fondness for alcohol, accusing him of arriving drunk for a meeting last month in Uzbekistan. Yeltsin denounced the charge as "a big campaign to discredit the President, reform and authority." Still, he possesses one quality of leadership that sets him apart from Gorbachev: he is courageous and confident enough of his mandate as Russia's first democratically elected President...
...most recent incident was last March, when a bunch of Cornell lacrosse players wanted to get into a party at the D.U. They tried to go in through the downstairs entrance. They were pretty drunk, and one of them threw Gary R. Shenk '92 up against the wall while trying...
...alleged assailants claims he was roughed up when the D.U. members threw him out. Probably so, since he was drunk and had 30 guys in his face. His claim--completely wacky--is that some kind of chain letter version of the talionic law holds on Saturday night: If you get hurt, you get to hurt someone else, and so on, and so on. Private parties, public vices...