Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting on the editorial page has largely passed from vogue. Today, many U.S. editorial cartoonists treat their cartoons merely as squiggles to relieve the boredom of the editorial page, end up boring their readers with such stereotyped figures as Uncle Sam, Justice and Lady Luck, such stock targets as drunken driving, Soviet Russia and unscrupulous landlords. To cover their own inadequacies, they often over-label until the reader misses the point for the paragraphs. "There are little figures running around labeled 'Administration,' " says the London Evening Standard's Vicky, "and if they draw a cloud, they label...
...ancillary characters in Macbeath, compared with those in the other great tragedies, are notoriously sketchy. But they constitute the chief acting strength of this production. Donald Harron's Banquo is keen and alert; and Hiram Sherman's drunken Porter is properly diverting...
...roamed a million square miles to remind friendly and sometimes faltering governments that U.S. power was close at hand. At the same time, the Sixth Fleet under Anderson often served as a huge floating embassy of good will. His sailors were under taut control ashore: "A drunken liberty is a wasted liberty." Anderson sent high officers in civvies to police the S.P.s who were supposed to police the sailors, cut the fleet's VD rate in half partly by sending medics to feed anti-VD pills to prostitutes. A Roman Catholic, he urged his men to go to church...
...critic of Milan's Corriere della Sera sat down in shock and bewilderment to write a review of the wildest exhibition he had ever seen. It consisted, said he, of the "maddest coloristic orgy, the most insane eccentricities, the most macabre fantasies, all the drunken foolishness possible or imaginable." That was the general reaction a few years before World War I to a group of Italian rebels who called themselves futurists. This week 129 of their works went on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in the first comprehensive exhibit of futurism ever held...
...hypnotic user and abuser of language. Like Thomas, the author of Under the Volcano erupted in lava flows of talk and lapsed into broody silences. Like Thomas, Lowry was a compulsively heavy drinker. At 47, he died an alcoholic's dreadful death: lying on his back in a drunken stupor, he began to vomit and choked to death. Finally, like Thomas, he spawned the kind of cult that makes a writer seem worth more dead than alive...