Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pagodas. The son of a poor Czech goldsmith, Oskar Kokoschka briefly earned a living decorating fans and postcards, or betting U.S. tourists he could drink them under the table. His formal education was slight, "acquired through reading under my school desk. Therefore my intellect resembles a Tibetan desert, with a few pagodas here & there." During World War I, he achieved a brief respectability by joining the dragoons, because he liked the uniform. But he always kept his private pledge: never to shoot the enemy...
High Blood Pressure. Victims are prematurely old mentally, look to the future with anxiety, feel economic or social insecurity, "live intensely and desperately" to achieve their aims, are apt to be intolerant. They have no sense of make-believe, do not enjoy holidays. Since they exercise little and drink too much, they are likely to be overweight...
...Benchley's, from the heart rather than the roof of the mouth. She has an oblique, individual beauty and a trained dancer's continuous grace. As a result, she jerks genuine tears during scenes which ordinarily cause Shakespeare's greatest admirers to sneak out for a drink. Compared with most of the members of the cast, she is obviously just a talented beginner. But she is the only person in the picture who gives every one of her lines the bloom of poetry and the immediacy of ordinary life...
...anesthetic may rise too far and stop the patient's breathing. Usually only one injection is necessary. It acts quickly (in one to ten minutes), and relief from pain lasts from two to four hours. The patient is so comfortable that, when labor is long, she can eat, drink or smoke...
...When she meets Uncle Bumps, whom she has always idolized, he gets her drunk-a state which Miss Allyson communicates with more charm and taste than most movie stars of either sex. When she sobers, she is outraged. It is necessary to pretend that the genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins), who is borrowed from an orphanage. And so on. Such busy plotting would barely skin by in a play for high-school amateurs, and everybody except Miss Allyson, who would probably put her whole heart into stuff even thinner, plays it in that slothful...