Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles. The young man's duties included handling coded messages from the CIA about spy satellites. He worked in a room called the Black Vault, off limits to all but half a dozen TRW employees. The group found plant security so lax that they spent their days getting drunk on booze smuggled in via a CIA pouch, mixing daiquiris in a document shredder and selling Amway household products over the secure telephone line. Chris was sometimes sober enough to be appalled by the messages he was handling: the CIA was spying by satellite on friendly nations like France...
...tour life called Romance on the Road, not yet released, is in typical fashion drawn in both directions about it. He can see through the romance like a pool, even as he dives into it. "He's perfectly capable of getting off the plane in New York and staying drunk for the entire tour," says one of his friends. A talk with Townshend at the best of times is a hopscotch game in a minefield. This is part of what he means when he says, with some melodrama and a strong measure of truth, "Rock is going to kill...
...both Townshend's parents were dance-band musicians. "My dad's a great player," Townshend says. "Not a cowboy, but a great player. My mom was a singer. She was a bit of a cowboy." The band found its own cowboy, or show boater, one night when a half-drunk rowdy took the stage, displaced the drummer and gave an uninvited audition that ended when he kicked over the drum kit. Keith Moon was a member of the band on the next date...
...YORK the air breathes back at you. Along 45th St., in the heart of the theater district, the limousines queue up at the curb like a funereal parade. As if staged by some cynical scenarist, a drunk's reflection appears in the shiny black of one of the cars. He ambles slowly, his image distorts as it sweeps over the doors, door handles, smoked windows and tail lights of one limo and forms again on the next, moving down the line until it drops off, lost in the gutter. Across from the Royale Theater, where a golden marquee has promoted...
...Jimmy Carter, happy news on energy is about as rare as a drunk at Sunday school. But now from Congress come some welcome tidings to mix with all the bad reports out of Iran and the other oil-producing countries. The key energy recommendations made after the President's eleven-day retreat at Camp David last July should be signed into law within a few weeks. While this action will not forestall another price increase when OPEC meets next month in Caracas, it represents the most serious step taken to deal with the nation's energy woes since...