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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shocking plot. Unlike the Boatwrights of Bastard, a lively and tightly-knit group of ne'er-do-wells, the Johnsons are isolated from their extended family and ruthless towards each other, each one capable of horrible acts of cruelty. The main culprit is the father, Bill Sr., a vicious drunk who between jail stints beats his wife and children and sexually abuses his daughter Jean. Billy Jr., the dead man of the title, responds to the abuse by becoming his father's replica, repeating his father's acts first with Jean, then with his own family. Jean, the youngest...

Author: By Carmen J. Iglesias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Much About Incest Is Better Left Unsaid | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...many students can tell tales that equal or even that of Maggie. Recruiting trips always have a high potential for turning nasty, as in an effort to show the recruit a good time, team members proceed to get him or her frighteningly drunk. The consequences can be dire. The Ivy League grapevine brings us the story of the Princeton squash recruit who puked on the couch she was sleeping on and didn't get to clean it up because she had to catch a 9 a.m. train. Her host's roommates still speak of their hatred for her. There...

Author: By Carlin E. Wing, | Title: Uninvited Guest | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

Anwar: My perception of his leadership is that he is drunk with power, lost all sense of rationality and sanity. He has no qualms about using all instruments of government, the police and the judiciary to serve his ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Is Drunk with Power | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...would actually be elected. But in a three-way race the ball takes funny bounces, and that is how Minnesota got a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. Governor named Jesse ("The Body") Ventura, and all week Minnesotans were feeling sort of giddy about it, like Lutherans who've drunk a little more than we meant to and now here we are singing Alley Oop and dancing on the sofa. Who woulda thunk we could get this crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota's Excellent Ventura | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Aside from the comic irony of seeing her decapitate helpless ragdolls, Struthers' main contribution to the show is her name recognition. She portrays Miss Hannigan as little more than a drunk with a penchant for the laundry man, although she does have a rather entertaining drunken twitch, which starts as merely an annoyance but escalates into a full-body contortion of sorts by the final scene. Her singing is at times a high-pitched and quite realistic whine, and at others a growl worthy of the most horrible of lonely spinsters. According to the playbill, Struthers is the first...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IT'S THE HARD KNOCK LIFE | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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