Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noticed after his first wife died that his grief gave him "new insight" into Shakespeare. Every play revealed meanings he had not suspected-and Booth, no matter how deep his private misery, was never deaf to dramatic demands. Even in his drunken days, it was said, he managed to suit his intoxication to his part: he was "melancholy-drunk for Hamlet, sentimentally drunk for Othello, and savagely drunk for Richard III." Personal tragedy began to shape all his parts-and in such a way as to suggest that he was rooting out forever the elements that had brought misery...
...went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere hits (any disk that sells 200,000 copies) into the enchanted circle of million-copy smashes. The song itself has keen likened by at least one fan magazine writer to the sounds a drunken Turk might make shouting down a well. The fact is that Clooney did as much for the song as the song...
From one danger, however, even the aqualung could not secure the divers--the drunken elation induced by nitrogen gas under the tremendous pressures of the depths. In the intoxication of the "zone of rapture", the diver may lose control, as one of the group did, and tear the aqualung from his back as an impulsive gift to a passing fish...
Burg attempted to save Stephen M. Berger of Chestnut Hill from the attack of the armed and drunken boys. When he intervened, one of the boys cried, "I'm drunk and I'm tough, and you'd better watch out." Then they struck Burg from all sides and cut him on he scalp with sharpened belt-buckles...
...performance as an ex-first lady of the screen is first-rate. She is, by turns, mad and loving, nasty and nice, happy and unhappy. She appears in chic clothes and drab ones, is sad at a gay Hollywood party, watches herself on the screen, is jailed for drunken driving, works as a saleslady in a department store. It is a marathon one-woman show and, all in all, proof that Bette Davis -with her strident voice, nervous stride, mobile hands and popping eyes - is still her own best imitator...