Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Davies runs a roadhouse band, an inebriated, often sloppy, occasionally off-key crowd of louts who are proud of their loutishness. So Ray sprays the front rows with beer, during a drunken and therefore mock-puritanical version of "Alcohol," just before reminding us who he is, with "Skin and Bone," about Muswell Hill`s "fist, Bobby Annie;" and who he becomes, with "Yes Really Got Me," and "All Day and All of the Nights...
Butley teaches English at the University of London, but this is not a day on which he could possibly focus his eyes on a student or a lecture note. Alcohol has become the hemlock of his middle age; he gulps straight from the bottle and his self-destructive binges have begun to overlap. This is the day that his wife (Holland Taylor) tells him that she is leaving him permanently for another man. More homo than hetero, Butley is further staggered to learn that his colleague-protégé is dropping him for another lover. To compound the bitterness...
...state medical examiner, Dr. Charles R. Robinson, had said that there was "absolutely no evidence" that the death was "caused by physical injuries." Robinson concluded that Largey's death was the result of an overdose of alcohol and barbiturates...
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, although clashing and straining against each other so frequently, are also inextricably entwined in a pattern of memories, emotions and family ties. The old father's predilections for alcohol, nervously alluded to throughout, breaks out in one tragi-comical scene, when he gets together with two old cronies and the ancient threesome proceeds to get quietly plastered. Even then, they cannot escape the disillusionment of the present. They spend their time together not thriving on old memories, but discussing the sad state of their children, the sorrow of facing the reality that their offspring are failures...
Medical examiner Robinson concluded however, that the cause of Largey's death was a combined overdose of barbiturates and alcohol...