Word: guttered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much hyped new memoir, Drinking: A Love Story, 37-year-old journalist Caroline Knapp unravels her tumultuous past life as a "high-functioning" alcoholic. The term is one she borrows from A.A. parlance, and it refers to the sort of boozer who lives well above the gutter, getting good grades at fine colleges, meeting deadlines, summering on Martha's Vineyard. Like most writers and filmmakers who have chronicled the middle-class drinking life, Knapp writes from the prevailing modern perspective that alcoholism is another challenge to be surmounted, a demon to be confronted, a battle...
...this movie is concerned, not a very sexy one. Writer-director Andrew Bergman presents her as a rather abstract object of desire. He wants us to know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter--can't afford to waste time there, given the amount of busy work he has to attend. This largely derives from the complexities of novelist Carl Hiaasen's quite faithfully followed plot. It places Moore's character, a stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight to regain custody of her daughter from a creepy former spouse, which in turn involves...
...good part of the Perot vote. So Perot was happy last week to praise Powell while he buried him. On CNN's Larry King Live, Perot talked about what a fine candidate Powell would have been, while advancing his own agenda. Perot blamed "the dirty tricks, the gutter politics" for scaring off the best contenders...
...Dilapidated school buildings would be renovated, and fancy computer labs installed. Class size would go down, and test scores up. Less money would be spent on the bureaucracy, and more where it counted: on the students. And Hartford's public schools would maybe slowly raise themselves out of the gutter of the Connecticut school system. All this, and more, was hoped for last year when Education Alternatives, Inc. landed a five-year contract to run Hartford's entire 32-school district and its $200 million budget...
...johns, including a middle-aged man whom he physically assaults. But the most striking aspect of the film involves the relationship (somewhat reminiscent of Of Mice and Men) and his newfound pal in the city, a consumptive, limping Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), as each eke out life in the gutter with their eyes on the stars. The desperation of the characters' lives in the city--stealing, living in a condemned building--hits us most, while the theme of homosexuality seems considerably less controversial today...