Word: rum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Happy-Hour Defense Northwest Airlines Captain Norman Prouse offered a woozy excuse when he and two colleagues faced criminal charges for flying a jet while drunk. His lawyer claimed that because Prouse is an alcoholic, the 15 or so rum-and-colas he downed before flying did not impair him as much as they would a moderate drinker. But the judge served up a 16-month sentence...
What fuses this apparent chaos into a coherent and haunting play is the theme that runs through all of Reddin's work, notably Rum and Coke (1985), Big Time (1987) and Nebraska (1989): the tandem dangers of run-amuck individualism and nice-guy uninvolvement. The central character in Life During Wartime is, like almost all of Reddin's heroes, a genial but morally weightless young man. When he learns that other salespeople in his home-security firm are running a sideline in burglary -- for the loot and to generate additional sales -- he assumes it has nothing to do with...
...movie Borstal of the '70s, George Armitage, is the writer-director. Funnier still, Armitage has one-upped his old pal. Whereas Demme's movies punctuate flaky comedy with explosions of violence, Miami Blues blends the two moods in a savory tropical cocktail. What makes the taste so tangy -- the rum or the cyanide...
...Miller tent, the company was giving away neon baseball caps to anyone who could show proof of purchase for two cases of the beer. Up the beach, Anheuser-Busch had installed a 20-ft.-tall inflatable six- pack of Budweiser. Poolside at Howard Johnson, Bacardi was advertising rum- and-orange-juice cocktails for 25 cents. Read a marquee outside one beachfront bar: PARTY 'TIL YOU PUKE...
Amid this typhoon of claims and counterclaims, Federal Judge Richard Kellam must decide whether the salvage rights won by the robot lead to ownership or merely a finder's fee. And perhaps a bottle of rum...