Over a period of more than half a century, Bukowski, who was born in Germany and brought to America at the age of three, chronicled, in poems and novels, his life as a drifter and a drunk as he lurched through the mean streets of Los Angeles.
In a popular joke, a drunk shouts that he is a baggage-handler at Havana's Hotel Nacional.
No, your average Wall Street pro hasn't beat a dart tossed by a drunk in a bus depot bar since 1994.
"That's what started it all, " said Ms. Aronin, who attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and was all set, at age 18, to accept an apprenticeship at the Falmouth Playhouse, a summer-stock theater, only to be confronted by a scene that was way too gritty: A drunk roommate.
She says she was married to a much older man who turned out to be a drunk who constantly beat her and their children.
The law was prompted in part by the deaths last autumn of a Las Vegas family of five, who collided with a drunk driver heading the wrong way on a New Mexico interstate.
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Denounced by a drunk teenager, the Golovins are resettled a continent away in Augean conditions.
Apparently, she didn't appreciate being delayed for a drunk whose lip was bitten off by his Pomeranian.
Burns describes herself as the daughter of an addict who was once hit by a drunk driver.
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W. Bush, though once skeptical of tax cuts, framed himself as a reformed drunk on the tax question.
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On May 14, 1988, a drunk driver drove his pickup the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky.
Nobody asks to be hit by a drunk driver, or to be swept up in a surprise layoff.
The manager, meanwhile, was outside dealing with a drunk and belligerent young man.
Cowell described Evans' earlier performance of Tom Jones' hit It's Not Unusual as "a little bit drunk dad at a wedding".
Anyway, he had to be a drunk to say on Miami Beach, where all the sober artists have long ago left.
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"If Ann Landers was a drunk and flagellant pirate, " that's what you'd have, said Summers, who still lives in Albany, Oregon.
She described a difficult childhood for her son, with a verbally and physically abusive stepfather whom Carol Beasley characterized as a mean drunk.
Buying lots of booze does not make you a drunk-driver, but someone who buys little or none seems less likely to be one.
At the worst of times, working with whatever data happen to be available, they resemble a drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost.
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Jason then continued his journey on roller-blades until he was hit by a drunk driver, breaking both his legs and landing him in intensive care.
But too many cringe at his views, label him a drunk racist and then ignore him, assuming that everyone else will come to the same conclusion.
Thomas Paine - the American and French revolutionary hero and allegedly the first person to write the words "the United States of America", died a penniless drunk in Manhattan.
Chancellor was colorful from the beginning: a drunk conducting a series of affairs with younger men, as well as one with the best friend of her husband, the wealthy Gary Reynolds.
Dutch judo competitor Edith Bosch was nearby and posted on her Twitter site: "A drunk guy threw a bottle on the track in front of me -- I hit him.... Unbelievable!"
Cooper's character was colorful from the beginning: a drunk conducting a series of affairs with younger men, as well as one with the best friend of her husband, the wealthy Gary Reynolds.
One technician from Cornwall, who did not want to be identified, was recently attacked by a drunk who walked off the street and into a house where she was treating a patient.
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The actress was released earlier this month from the women's jail in Lynwood, where she served less than two weeks of a 90-day sentence for violating her probation from a 2007 drunk-driving charge.
But it was just her two oldest sons, Roy and Troy, floating home inside the bubble of her prayer, still in crumpled, cattin'-around clothes from Saturday night, still a little drunk on Sunday morning.
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