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...Puns. The show has lots of them. All the characters' names are puns. Much of the dialogue is punny. Often, even the title is a pun. (In 1989, the show was called Whiskey Business. Two years ago, it was Romancing the Throne. This year it's A Tsar is Born. You get the idea.) Every show contains a pun on the words "Hasty Pudding," as well as a "punrun"--a run of puns on one theme...
...These cards are like whiskey in the hands of an alcoholic," says Dave Speights, a Maryland-based consumer-protection expert. "The only difference is that here the alcoholic is a relatively irresponsible twenty-year...
...results. Both end up with AIDS as well as Emma's newly conceived child. The final candidate is Todd himself, who seduces Tommy, then gives Emma a gun when the tests come back positive, torments his father to the brink of madness and finally feeds his alcoholic mother enough whiskey to kill...
...Carpenter's voice, in the emotional precision of her words, in the world she weaves. Take Where Time Stands Still, which will get no radio play but sounds like a piano-bar classic about the haven of love. Years from now, some chanteuse with wise eyes and a whiskey voice will be singing that "Memory plays tricks on us,/ The more we cling, the less we trust,/ And the less we trust the more we hurt,/ And as time goes by it just gets worse." Then the guy at the end of the bar will nod in assent and wonder...
Once I went to a bar called the Mixers on Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis with a woman who was 20, like me, and who drank enough whiskey sours to founder a Percheron. My hopes rose with every glass she took, and when she finally asked me to take her home, I assumed that the joyful moment was at hand. She leaned against me when I got her in the car, green around the gills, her eyes unfocused when I kissed her, and I realized that we had overshot the mark. Liquor had reduced her judgment to where her affection...