Word: drunken
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Three years ago, Barbara Chernow's husband was struck and killed by a New York City police car driven by a drunken officer. Chernow sued the city for $29 million, partly for the loss of her husband's future income. Because her husband was 71 at his death, the jury might have concluded that his income- producing years were mostly behind him. No problem. Her attorney was 86. Who better to demonstrate, after all, that a man still has earning power after his hair turns gray? "Chernow was in excellent health," argued the spry attorney. "He could have well outlived...
During spring training, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth quietly tried to talk to Martin about his drinking. But alcohol and baseball have always had a charmed association. Beer is practically a synonym for the sport. Hockey scrapes Drunken Driver Pelle Lindbergh off the highway, while basketball and football shake their heads at Chris Mullin and Tommy Kramer. But baseball literally cheers for hangovers. In Mel Allen's day at the Yankee mike, home runs were "Ballantine blasts." Now the St. Louis Cardinals do their rallying to the Budweiser jingle played incessantly on the Busch Stadium organ...
Last month, on the same day he was fired as Baltimore manager, Cal Ripken Sr. pleaded guilty to drunken driving, a familiar Oriole road that Earl Weaver had swerved down before him. A manager is scarcely a manager if his nose has never required batteries. Tommy Lasorda, who for insurance reasons has removed the beer keg from his Dodger Stadium office, tells some funny stories about the huge consumers he has managed -- not including the ones who had to take time to dry out, like the young pitcher Bob Welch. Interestingly, Newcombe had approved of Lasorda's office...
...again, what do we know about our local geography and its inhabitants? I know, for instance, of one unhappy room down the hall which recently, in its capacity as Hole #12 in an all-hall tourney of 18-hole Beer Golf, played host to a circle of drunken funsters. One of these revellers, from another school no less, temporarily transformed into an outright hooligan by the sauce, relieved himself against the wall of my hallmates' common room...
Sifton would steal the show were it not for Adam Barr, who steals it from him. Barr, in the role of Tucker, the Gurney family manservant, injects the production with a dose of much-needed comic relief. As Tucker degenerates from perfect manservant to drunken, pitiable fool, Barr maintains his command over the stage and the audience...