Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"She Is Dead." About 31 hours later, Loraine Percy was partially aroused by the sound of tinkling glass and brief, faint, clicking sounds. Assuming that one of her children had knocked over a drinking glass, she sank back into sleep. Minutes later she was awakened again by a deep, agonized...
"Among the things that TIME takes up in its article on middle age, there's the fact that in the period there are frequently last grasps at youth. Middle-aged men in particular, TIME says, will sometimes see a couple of young lovers in the park or somewhere and...
"On that basis, the most popular thing among TIME readers apparently is buying things for industrial plants or moving plants around. And the second most popular thing seems to be drinking. Two of the full-color ads are for liquor or mix. A close third in popularity is smoking.
∙It's a Free Country, disguised as a thriller, is a fable that might have been concocted by an unusually simple-minded fellow traveler. The villain of the piece is the British security system, which is apparently feeble enough to let a Burgess and Maclean, a Philby or...
For plot, the film boasts a CORE sampling of injustices that supposedly explain the color-conscious hero's heavy drinking and bad temper. Seldom is there any doubt that what makes Adam run is Sammy. Carpentered into the story line are all the predictable solo turns-a crying jag...