Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spanking new Paris Cinema, with its drunken murals of Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, with its little attendant in gendarme costume (a la Jack Lemmon) who welcomes all with a sheepish "bon soir," with its rotund manager exuding continental pleasantries in Maurice Chevalier tones as he hustles customers to their upholstered seats, really put me in the mood for Billy Liar...
Throughout Aiken's writing we witness the human tendency toward self-destruction. "We specialize in smash-ups," says Andren Cather, the drunken hero of Great Circle. "If there's anything we dearly love, it's a nice little smash-up." This aspect of life is sharply portrayed in Blue Voyage. The hero, Demarest, speaks of a love he will never recapture: "There's no concealing the suffering it has brought, that frightful and inescapable and unwearying consciousness of the unattainable...
...dance of death at ever-varying tempos. It can be antic, as when he pats the bottom of an Old Howard burlesque stripper in Boston, and reminds her that he will be reading his poems at Radcliffe. It can be a gallant agony of slow motion, as he disciplines drunken legs to march to the podium on his reading tours. It becomes the jabbing dance of the prize ring with Caitlin (Kate Reid), his wife and scarring partner, as their savage domestic infighting vividly creates the image of a marriage where words not only lead to blows but are blows...
Perhaps the frankest of judges is General Sessions Judge Brown Taylor of Nashville, Tenn. He once dismissed a drunken-driving charge against a banker because "this man loaned me money when I needed it, and I'm going to help him now." After a witness in an assault case testified that the defendant struck him with a whip, Taylor offered some judicial advice: "Don't ever let anyone whip you. Take a gun and kill...
...deepest loyalty for the Roman Catholic Church. Paraguay's Pettirosi Market in the capital of Asuncion is built around a rustic brick chapel, and each morning when the market women troop past, they light candles, kneel down and pray, and place flowers on the altar. "Most men are drunken no-goods," says one market matriarch. "Priests are the only members of their sex I can respect...