Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Futile Sanctions. So-called public intoxication accounts for almost 50% of criminal arrests in U.S. urban areas-or roughly 1,000,000 arrests a year-and for more than 50% of the inmates in U.S. county jails. These statistics do not include arrests for drunken driving or assaults caused by drinking. Arrests for plain public drunkenness total about 26,000 a year in San Francisco, 66,000 in Chicago, 80,000 in Los Angeles-while chronic drunks travel an endless circuit from gutter to cell to gutter before their final trip to the morgue. "It is hard to imagine...
Although the report stresses that late football parietals do not cause "wild parties and drunken driving," it also argues that lower attendance at House dances would do little harm...
...gown created by Designer Cecil Beaton, whose art nouveau sets and costumes are a splendid show in themselves-is one of those great movie moments seldom accomplished without the help of brass bands and fireworks. And Hepburn tops that when she begins describing, in precise Mayfair accents, the drunken demise of her old aunt: "Gin was mother's milk...
...Ghelderode sets Miss Jairus, for example, in the house of a merchant in medieval Bruges. As the merchant Jairus and three old hags who are professional mourners keep a drunken vigil over his dead daughter, the daughter's finance suddenly brings in a sorcerer who has been confounding the local clerics and physicians. The finance, Jacquelin, cannot stand to lose Miss Jairus and demands that the sorcerer awake...
...face, eyes widened by arrested tears, tentative, reaching, wistful in her offerings of tender inadequacy. Here in her eyes, green eyes, the film unfolds. As she steals into his bedroom, only to resist him. As a pinch-lipped minister exhorts her for her mortal sin. As her father's drunken friends break into the adulterer's home. As he ignores her, making witty cocktail talk with superficial antagonists...