Word: dipsomaniacal
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...inspected two lumpish sculptures by Hans Arp and Brancusi at the request of British customs officials and advised them not to classify such horrors as art. (He finally reconsidered and the sculptures were let in.) Manson also once noted in a catalogue that Painter Maurice Utrillo was "a confirmed dipsomaniac . . . to his death." Utrillo, on his feet and sober as an avenging angel, sued and won a public apology...
...down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just as he is staggering out of a bar, still wearing last night's tuxedo-descends his divorced American wife Yvonne, in a last desperate effort to remake their marriage...
...debts. The stepson (Robert Sterling), just home from the Navy, is a nice, levelheaded boy. But the stepdaughter (June Allyson) is something straight out of Freud. Since no one has ever told her that the adored father who died when she was five was a weakling, a dipsomaniac and a thief, June sits all day at the piano, strumming Debussy and mooning over daddy's memory. Meanwhile, stepmother Claudette works her fingers to the bone on the big real-estate deals that keep the family going...
...them are nicely preserved. Henry Fonda, as the half-reluctant, pistol-packing marshal of booming, lawless Tombstone, could hardly be better. Victor .Mature, who used to wander aimlessly through slick-haired juvenile roles before his 41-month hitch in the Coast Guard, actually does some acting as the dipsomaniac doctor-turned-renegade. Linda Darnell (a brunette for the last time before dyeing her hair honey-blonde to play Amber) is the lushly pretty dance-hall tart...
...really did it. In the process they mix with Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples: Duryea 's mannerisms as a dipsomaniac jazz pianist; Michael Brandon showing how a grade-A Hollywood columnist acts, and is treated, on a visit to a grade-B hot spot...