Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most part the other characters are earthbound creatures who cannot escapee society's rules. Outstanding in their roles are George Howe, Eliot Makcham, and Peter bull, as the Mayor, the Chaplain, and the Justice of Cool Clary. Esme Percy steals a brief scene when he appears as a drunken psalm-singing ragman. The other players are consistently fine. Much of the credit for the smooth and well-paced performance goes to Gielgud, who direced. Oliver Messel's scenery and costumes are wisely simple and unobtrusive...
Through the Rye. In Youngstown, Ohio, Judge Frank P. Anzellotti dismissed a drunkenness charge against George Shirley when Shirley proved himself sober enough to spell the name of his home town, nearby Punxsutawney, Pa. In Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the charge against Abdulla ben Brahim was reduced from drunken driving to reckless driving when Abdulla proved his sobriety by walking around the police station on his hands...
...times during "City Lights" the dramatic cliches that Chaplin habitually used become apparent. But Chaplin's superb pantomime seldom allows the plot to become any more, important than a background. A drunken Millionaire befriends Chaplin, and then tosses him aside when he becomes sober; a blind Flower-girl takes him for a "gentleman," and falls in love with him. That is the basis of the plot...
...came, and tried to do so with a minimum of noise. That was the single important fact of the summer. It came with the stumbling, heavy-footed steps of the funny papers' drunken husband (reeling home at two a.m. with shoes in hand): the neighbors tried not to notice. But war was there, a large black fact somewhere to the west, and whether you were sweating in an Indiana hayfield or pitching into the cold Atlantic swell, or addressing packages in a musty New York stockroom the war existed for everyone as a thought, or a hope, or a dread...
...came, and tried to do so with a minimum of noise. That was the single important fact of the summer. It came with the stumbling, heavy-footed steps of the funny papers' drunken husband (reeling home at two a.m. with shoes in hand): the neighbors tried not to notice. But war was there, a large black fact somewhere to the west, and whether you were sweating in an Indiana hayfield or pitching into the cold Atlantic swell, or addressing packages in a musty New York stockroom the war existed for everyone as a thought, or a hope, or a dread...