Listening To a Life Drain Out Of a Bottle
Ben BrantleyApril 3, 2002: It may be your opinion that the last thing Manhattan needs is another drunken windbag, the kind who ruins dinner parties by driveling and ranting through every course, spitting food and sloshing wine. But please let Alan Bates help you to reconsider this social prejudice.
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