Word: drunken
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...like those scenes in a Robert Altman movie where everyone talks over everyone else while each tongue is tripping on itself. For A Frolic of His Own (Poseidon Press; 586 pages; $25), Gaddis practically rebuilds the Tower of Babel from the sounds and furies of the late 20th century. Drunken soliloquies, air-brained chatter and large, heavy blocks of legal gibberish are piled atop one another. One character is haunted by the thought that "reality may not exist at all except in the words in which it presents itself" -- which would mean that there's lots...
...poem Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?, W.B. Yeats wrote (among other things) about the way that promising lives go wrong. For example: "Some have known a likely lad/ That had a sound fly-fisher's wrist/ Turn to a drunken journalist." Some have indeed. Pete Hamill is still a likely lad, too good to go on indulging the drunken journalist...
...past reform campaigns against drugs, smoking, pollution and drunken driving, an informal alliance of opinion leaders sees a chance to break gridlock and bad habits and reopen a national debate. While denying any move toward censorship, such radio stations as WBLS in New York City have stopped playing songs that might encourage violence and misogyny. Others have banned the inflammatory music of the Gangsta Rappers. Last week manufacturers of video games agreed to place voluntary warning labels on packages that would rate the violent content...
...make mistakes. But Sharon Curley's (Tina Kellegher) is a beaut. It's not just that in a careless, definitely not rapturous, moment she manages to get knocked up. It's that the man who bent her back over the hood of a car outside a pub one drunken night is old enough to be her father. Is, indeed, a friend of her father's. Is, in fact, George Burgess (Pat Laffan), who lives across the street and coaches the football team of one of her younger brothers. Is, incurably, an "ejit" (idiot in Dublin slang), the kind...
...best part? Everything during the weekend of The Game happens so quickly--and often in such a drunken stupor--that you may be able to visit New Haven without noticing that you've entered an industrial waste-land of sorts...