They feed rumours that he was a womaniser, a drunk, even a crypto-Jew.
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.
Does losing a loved one in a massive terrorist attack demand public assistance, whereas losing a loved one to a drunk driver does not?
One document quotes a nightclub singer who claimed a drunk John Kennedy attempted to rape her in a West Palm Beach hotel room in 1945.
It matters not a whit that the lid maker is a drunk, wife-beating, out-of-work painter who stumbled upon this idea through pure serendipity when he tripped over a can of paint.
"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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She has a drunk scene on an airplane which is almost scary in its unleashed libido.
Denounced by a drunk teenager, the Golovins are resettled a continent away in Augean conditions.
Activists and advocates use the Constitution like a drunk uses a street-light, more for support than illumination.
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.
Like a drunk swerving down the road hitting mailboxes, Professor Kammen dented selfish Republicans and ignorant red-staters as often as he could.
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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First to raise a glass and last to put it down very much hail fellow, well met although he was never a drunk, and never incompetent.
On our first meeting he described himself as a violent drunk but never, he said, to a woman, a child or an honest citizen.
It would appear that just about everyone wants to create something that will go viral, even if they come out looking like a drooling drunk.
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