Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure, in the thorny matter of getting a road built, it is Mister Johnson who finds the answer-but in so un-British a fashion as to get sacked. Then, in a moment of drunken confusion, he inadvertently kills a storekeeper he is trying to rob, and mercy can find no legal way to season justice...
...With knowing French jokes and urbane, intellectual patter, Britt Harris parley-voodoos her under his spell and out of Sam's arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter of the novel has the flavor of a Hitchcock thriller as the two men, as cagily on guard against each other as against the Germans, go on a mission behind enemy lines. Sam gets his revenge, though...
...Cure. In Windsor, Ont., charges of drunken driving against Verne Smith, 40, were dismissed after he told the court that he could not have been drunk at the wheel because he had downed only five of his daily quota of 15 beers, explained that he drinks so much that alcohol no longer has any effect...
Shortly before twelve one night in Beverly Hills, earthy playwright Clifford (Clash by Night) Odets, 49, foggily piloted his new Lincoln into a parked car. The target vehicle ricocheted a full 45 feet. Odets flew on. Nabbed soon, he was jailed for nine hours, rapped for drunken driving and for evasive action after a collision, sprung next morning on $263 bail...
...Welles would have devised, following the lead of the ancient Greek exodos, the grandly impressive (and wordless) epilogue, within which the story itself is a flashback--thereby imparting a new form and focus to the finished product. No-one but Welles could have thought up the settings for the drunken brawl and the killing of Roderigo. Welles' direction and camera work are virtuosic throughout: his untiring inventiveness is ever apparent; and he is a master of black-and-white, from a close-up of part of a white robe through all manner of chiaroscuro to a totally blackened screen. Indeed...