Word: wino
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...demand to get acquainted with New Yorkers’ personalities. Handey satirizes the notoriously uncaring ethos of that city. After falling out of a cab, the narrator says, “Even though you’re all scraped up and your bones are broken, a wino comes up to you and says, ‘Gimme some money.’ Gimme some money?! Your bones are all broken, but he still says gimme some money! He’s a New York wino, all right!”Even environmentalism fails to escape Handey?...
...tour of Undiscovered Somerville ends. We have seen the back alleys, wino-occupied rooftops and vodka-factory parking lots that most Harvard undergrads will never encounter. The town may have recently started getting a little higher class, Cappy says, but “I’ve always loved...
...Helen Springut '03, a regular attendee, describes. "There's a table in the back with wine, and some older guy looks at you and asks, 'Red or White?' " Das' friend, social swinger Paul R. Mrockowski '00, attests to the superior pedigree of the wine bar. As a self-declared wino, Mrockowski can appreciate the connoisseur in Das--a small reward for the approximate $500 Das drops per party...