Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teeming crowd, estimated at 20,000 and dotted by loud clusters of drunken jollifiers, blanked the hillsides to watch the afternoon regatta on Lake Quinsigamond at Worcester...
...accustomed to flash-backs, but not to such brief flashes as those Strick introduces in his first scene: at the Martello tower, Buck Mulligan says "The aunt thinks you killed your mother," and Stephen sees, and we see, his mother's deathbed, an image that recurs in the drunken hallucinations of Nighttown. Except for Resnais's films, we are not at all accustomed to flash-forwards, and Strick uses them liberally: as Bloom leaves home in the morning, he imagines Blazes Boylan, his wife Molly's lover, leaping at her, as he will that afternoon...
...royal anterooms, and waits on some small despot, sleeping off a drunken meal...
...there is also a much more positive side to police-student relations. The force serves as an effective buffer between students and the Cambridge police, who have the authority to enter the University but "out of courtesy" leave Harvard to the University Police. Cambridge authorities will often hand drunken students wandering in the Square to the University cops, rather than let them spend the night in jail. And with University Police handling student demonstrations, students get much more flexible supervision than the Cambridge police would provide...
...eleven years since he was killed in a car crack-up at the age of 44, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, fabled for his whiplash paintings, truculent insistence on wearing cowboy boots, and his drunken rages, has ceased to be regarded as a guru among his fellow artists. A more sophisticated public is no longer shocked by the fact that he dribbled and threw paint at his monumental canvases instead of applying it with a brush. For those accustomed to the bright glow of neon, even his colors seem calm. In short, Pollock has become something that many artists dread more...