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...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...
...budding vaudevillian putting makeup on his collar even when unemployed so everyone will know he is in show biz. One is touched by the physical fact that his left wrist was permanently larger than the right from breaking repeated pratfalls. And a fine moment comes when a wino outside the theater holds out a dollar saying "Here, Bert, and thanks." As a young intellectual, John Lahr is eloquent, too, about his father's final sense that he did not understand the modern world around him. Unfortunately, such moments only emphasize the fact that the book never reaches the secret...
...AFRAID of meeting a Kool-Aid Wino...