Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...privacy as an inaccessible, impossible luxury. When Del and Irene do manage finally to pass a night together it is in Bronco's flat, where cartons of stolen merchandise are stacked against the wall and Bronco sprawls at the foot of the bed, restlessly sleeping off a drunk...
...late husband Carl of the literary agency Brandt & Brandt. With a few revisions the book could have been called Three Friends, or even Carol and John. When the Brandts enter Marquand's life, the writing suddenly gets some real texture. We know about weather, clothing, whether drinks were drunk or ice cream spoons licked. We also find out what pleased Marquand and what annoyed him, which situations he could face and which ones...
...protest against "American imperialism." A group called the Red Brigade was suspected. Three Italians, dressed unaccountably in World War II German uniforms, were arrested in northern Italy carrying eleven pounds of explosives; they had stopped frequently at taverns along the road they were traveling and had managed to get drunk...
What I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought patterns previously held, and to toes aside some of my previous conclusions. I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed, while praying to the same God, with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. We were truly the same brothers, because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior...
Harry Myers shuttles stylishly between his roles of unloveable businessman and laughable drunk, and Virginia Cherrill is as appropriately sweet and endearing as any in the long line of Hollywood waifs. The film, however, never strays far from its hero: this is the Tramp's story, and Charlie Chaplin is the Tramp. More than anything in the plot's evolution or even the set-up of individual scenes, the humor and-or sadness evoked depends on Chaplin's unique blend of esprit and helplessness in this, his best-known character. He always chooses just the right foolish grin, the exact...