Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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June 15, 1940-4 p.m. France had fallen. Down the main street of a country town staggered a drunken rout of French soldiery, bawling the self-disgust of their nation in a savagely gross song. "Tant qu'il y aura de la merde dans le pot," it went, "ça puera dans la chambre" (When the pot's full, no wonder the room stinks...
...Country Girl, Clifford Odet's newest play, concerns a drunken actor (Paul Kelly) seeking a return to stardom. Both Kelly and Uta Hagen give brilliant performances in this drama. (Lyceum...
Until Díaz came along, hardly a night passed in the rollicking, jazzy, bawdy barrio without a drunken fight, a shooting or a knifing. Under the conniving eyes of well-bribed cops, numbers-game runners and dope peddlers did a rich trade. From the doorways, women of all shades hawked their wares to a passing throng of awed countrymen, city slickers, roistering sailors and bottle-brave tourists...
...movie that now breaks the suspense is a chase-melodrama with little suspense of its own. Faith plays a passionate hussy who gets her hooks into a remarkably gullible physician (Robert Mitchum). She involves him in a drunken brawl that kills her husband (Claude Rains), then prods him into fleeing with her across the Mexican border. Dazed by a concussion, Dr. Mitchum goes on compounding the crime long after it becomes obvious that Faith is a fugitive from a psychiatrist's couch...
Shadow & Substance. In Passaic, N.J., Joseph Gardella, arrested for drunken driving, explained that he had been repairing a tavern refrigerator, attributed his condition to fumes from the methyl chloride used as a cooling fluid...