Word: dipsomaniacal
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...mesmerising tensions and hot sweat, we cut away our languages, our names, and in return for this tiny effort we are given our wonderful smile and it protects us, because God is on our side." Like God, Hannah too loves a drunk. His name is Robert Gardener, a dipsomaniac of a dentist, and though he seems to make her whole ("Nobody is complete - we all need topping up") it quickly becomes clear that her void is spiritual, not spirit-based. God, faith and salvation are ideas that regularly hover around Kennedy's fictions. But in Paradise, He's suddenly everywhere...
Perhaps. But eccentricity often accompanies creativity, even genius. Brahms frequented prostitutes. Liszt cut a Byronic swath through the women of 19th century Europe. All three of Wagner's children by Liszt's illegitimate daughter Cosima were conceived while she was still married to her first husband. Mussorgsky was a dipsomaniac and Tchaikovsky a homosexual. All these composers were able to transcend their personal difficulties to create great art; those searching for moral paradigms had better look elsewhere...
Saturday night on Bourbon Street, after the Indiana-UNLV game. Indiana won, and ten thousand delirious fraternity boys in red T shirts were in the street, drinking heavily. Here and where we saw more subdued though equally dipsomaniac Runnin' Rebel fans, but the evening was for crewcut Hoosiers from the cornfields. Television crews were out, and every few blocks we saw big knots of people, all struggling to get an alcohol flushed face or at least a clenched fist into evening news immortality. Impassive mounted police stood at the corners, staring from under plexiglass visors while the horses suffered raucous...
...sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most powerful roles portrayed deeply troubled or doomed women, such as the dipsomaniac in I'll Cry Tomorrow and the bar girl in I Want to Live who is framed on a murder charge and executed in a California gas chamber...
...novel recounts the last day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, the British Consul in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (Cuernavaca). The Consul, a dipsomaniac, has hardly been sober since his wife left him a year before. On the Day of the Dead, 1938, she suddenly returns, but it becomes increasingly clear that there is no way that he can respond to her, no way that he can free himself even for a day from the lure of the quasi-hallucinogenic Mexican drink, mescal. Near the end of the day, the consul stumbles away from his wife into...