Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hofmann's latest paintings, sad, gay and delirious, were on display last week in a Manhattan gallery. Drunken trapezoids in blinding reds and blues lurched against whirling, multicolored backgrounds. Blobs of oil streaked across canvases like Technicolor comets, leaving woozy hexagons and rectangles in their wake...
Statement of Condition. In Tulsa, after agreeing that Clifford Taylor was merely gunning his car and trying to get off an ice spot on which his wheels were spinning, police changed the charge against him from drunken driving to drunkenness...
...plan. Barrio Antioquia's schools were closed; one became a barracks for 40 cops, another was selected for a prophylactic clinic. In block after block, red lights appeared over open doors as the first 1,000 girls moved in. Jukeboxes, protected by wrought-iron frames, competed with noisy drunken laughter...
...grandeur of its well-chosen locations and the flashing charm of Mexico's Actress Marques, who looks something like a brunette Faye Emerson. And it gains vigor now & then from the hairy-chested direction of William (The Oxbow Incident) Wellman, notably in the roisterous humor of a drunken free-for-all, shots of horses charging and churning through mountain snowdrifts, and the unsqueamish thunk of arrows hitting human hide...
...Trotnyck, the janitor, compares the hall to Madison Square Garden: a different event each night. "But nothing really happens any more," he complains, "I always find couples petting in the dark corners on square dance nights, and several years ago some drunken Yalies crawled up the tower to steal the bell clapper, but it's nothing like the old days. The place is a little gloomy...