Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general, and the swooning old ladies could be taken from any number of films. And Visconti does not merely present them; he dwells on them. Moreover, he takes two of Lampedusa's most vivid characters and drams them of life. Don Calegro, the uneducated but shrewd mayor, becomes a drunken buffoon. Tancredi, the Prince's favorite, undergoes a rather obvious transition from youthful revolutionary to foppish conservative as the middle class reaction to change sets...
...famed war correspondent (John Randolph) has been vilified in print by his old right-wing extremist friend (Larry Gates) as a Communist-line lackey and a "drunken, immoral, yellow-bellied degenerate." An ace trial lawyer (Van Heflin) fights through to victory after the customary initial aw-shucks-not-another-case gambit. Of course there is the loyal, jittery, correspondent's wife, who wants to throw in the towel marked HIS. Of course there is the bright young legal eaglet who breaks the case wide open by being able to read an incriminating scrap of paper upside down...
...does spark one sizzling scene of class animus at a drunken, brawling Christmas party. The wing commander (Dallas Cavell), a jowly autocrat who regards the conscripts as disgusting animals and wants to see them make a loutish display of themselves, calls for some rock-'n'-roll music. Pip stops the music and coaxes one of the conscripts to sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass...
...were seeing toward Youngstown, Ohio, when Sunquist threw open the driver's door and dived onto the pavement is the fashionable Georgetown section of the Capital. The cab ran on a few feet and then crashed into a parked car. A curious gas station attendant easily disarmed the dased, drunken passenger...
...citizens who have had their drivers' licenses revoked for drunken driving or who have been in a fatal crash are listed in a master file, against which the computer can check any new license application and flash a reply within 24 hours to the state that sends it. Although there is a move on to broaden the machine's purview, present law prevents the computer from registering any other offense (parking, running red lights, etc.), and subsequent acquittals, or other altered court judgments are caught by interstate exchange of records. So far, only the District of Columbia, Missouri...