Word: wino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nope. We were booked for disturbing the peace--I had not said a word the whole evening--and thrown in the clink next to a wino drying out. What's a jail without a drunk in the next cell...
When enough people had come to pay the night's rent, we found that what we saw and heard really was not worth waiting for. After a couple of warm-up acts--highlighted by a guitar-playing individual who, though introduced as a Combat Zone wino, appeared to be wearing a wedding ring and definitely was wearing Top Siders--Kupferberg began his remarkably mediocre...
...Take a Letter to Maria" was the only song in the concert that elicited a noticeable response from the Park Street train-waiters. A fat old wino leaning against the wall, waiting for the Ashmont train, swayed blissfully with the melody in oblivious appreciation, without opening his eyes or loosening the grip on his paper-bagged Gallo...
Inalienable Snobbery. One immediate problem that faced Smith's Plungers was genuine derelicts, who proved that snobbery is inalienable to human nature. "I'd run into a wino," recalls Peter Dahm, "and say, 'Man, I need a place to crash. I need some bread. Where can I cop some work?' The language would really turn him off. It's the language of street kids, and the real down-and-outer doesn't speak it. In general, they didn't appreciate me at all. But at least they stopped asking me for money." Frank...
...produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a citrus-flavored wine that is 18% alcohol) have been on U.S. shelves for more than a decade. These cheap, more potent brands should continue to sell, mostly to the Skid Row set, despite the pop-wine invasion. What would a serious wino want, after all, with a low-alcohol tipple called Annie Greensprings...