Word: wino
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...stop working. When I stop working, I hurt. My head, my back, my legs hurt. I get dizzy. I can't stop." However, in speaking as her younger alterego, Kingston acquired an oft-frustrated voice, touched with a confused innocence: "I don't want to hear Wino Ghosts and Hobo Ghosts. I've found some places in this country that are ghost-free. And I think I belong there, where I don't catch colds or use my hospitalization insurance. Here I'm sick so often, I can barely work. I can't help it, Mama." By reading out-loud...
...Little Creatures'" premise is simple: A father driving his (nameless, genderless) child cross-country to visit his grandfather, "the golf wino." Along the way, he tries to make up stories about cute little animals with cute little names to entertain the child. (Coupland even includes illustrations...
...short plays, Ugly Duckling contains the sharper wit. In Milne's story, a wino King (Winsome Brown) and vain Queen (Charles Guerrero) are looking to marry off their ugly daughter, Princess Camilla (Andrea Thome) to the eagerly awaited Prince Simon (Alexandre Schneiders...
...break seemed to come in 1978, when Actors' Equity named him best male newcomer of the season for his powerful performance as a disillusioned wino in the short-lived Broadway drama The Mighty Gents. Freeman was 40, and he thought he had finally made it. Instead, a two-year drought followed. He was considering chucking the business and driving a cab, when offers began to dribble in. Then, along came the role of Fast Black, the mercurial pimp, in the movie Street Smart...
...couldn't do it. I needed those tickets in my hands, as badly as a wino needs a bottle...