Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soccer game on June 30. She recalls Flinn and Thompson flirting, joking about marriage. "She said, 'Where's my ring?' and held out her hand," Gayla remembers. Thompson fashioned a paper ring out of a napkin, and he put it on Flinn's hand. Gayla says Thompson had drunk too much to drive home, so after dinner Flinn drove...
...Flinn helped the Zigos move into their new home. In the weeks that followed, Gayla says, she often came home to find Kelly there. "I began to wonder if she ever went to work because she was always there," Gayla says. On July 11, she says, Marc came home drunk from a bar, and they got into a fight. Marc called Flinn, who offered to come pick him up. While she sat crying on her stoop, Gayla says, the bomber pilot drove up in her Honda Accord and whisked Marc Zigo away...
...sense of suffering which emerges in Parker's stories was lost. Although the actors made their characters pleasant and witty company for the evening, they all ended up seeming two-dimensional. Some of the cast members had their best and most believable moments when their characters were drunk, a condition that invites broader and more slapstick humor. Shar VanBoskirk '97 was hilarious as Lily Wynton, an aging movie star who likes brandy after breakfast...
...Shame on You, a wordy, rambunctious number that evokes early Springsteen, Ray sings of restlessly driving the roads only to be stopped by police "looking for illegal immigrants." In the piano ballad Leeds, Saliers sings of being drunk and depressed in a hotel room watching "16 black churches burning on the TV." The album is rarely preachy, and the sociological context--plus some canny rock-guitar riffs--give the Girls' music even more bite than it's used...
...before he had worked 15 hours." McLeery understands why Hershman attempted the drive. "Brent's little girl was sick, and he told her on the phone that he would be there," he says. But after working so many hours, McLeery adds, "you're impaired. You might as well be drunk...