Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sandy, then and still, belches throughout rehearsals. "Gigantic belches," recalls Burton. "I mean enormous ones, like a drunken sailor. Elizabeth is also a good belcher, so they had competitions, but Sandy nearly always won for number and volume." Musing over Dennis the Retired Menace last week while shooting an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Milk Train in Sardinia, Richard and Elizabeth seemed about to replay Edward Albee's "Get the Guest." Then Liz turned to Richard and purred: "It's awful, dear, but I'm afraid we just can't find anything nasty to say about...
Chopped Liver. In Virginia Woolf, Sandy played a drunken child bride with stomach-turning realism and cannily turned the part into that of an anemic ant asserting itself against dragons. "Sandy," Co-Star Elizabeth Taylor says overgraciously, "made chopped chicken out of me-or chopped chicken liver, which is even worse." In Up the Down Staircase, she persuasively demonstrates the importance of being earnest amid the cynicism and bureaucracy of big-city schools. In her most affecting scene, she reaches unreachable kids by getting them to relate their time to the opening lines of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities...
...many respects When She Was Good represents a departure about as shaking as a sonic boom. Philip Roth repeats some of his old themes, but his story is about Lucy, a Midwestern girl living in a small Midwestern town. Horrified by her drunken father, she rejects completely, literally and figuratively sending him to jail. And she adopts rigidly moral ideas about her own life. By being "good" she manages to destroy everything she touches and, eventually, to kill herself while pregnant with the child she conceived to force her husband into a sense of responsibility...
...Nicholas to heed sensible advice until it was too late. And he fatally fractured the image of the Czar in the mind of the masses. The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face of a bald satyr from Tobolsk...
Marquette Frye, the 21-year-old high school dropout whose arrest for drunken driving was the proximate cause of the riot, becomes a sympathetic figure. Raised in Hanna, Wyo., with no angry sense of color, he came to Watts in 1957 and was quickly told by new classmates that he "talked funny." By August 1965, he was talking wise-and wearing tight trousers and Italian shoes. Officers Lee Minikus and Bob Lewis of the California Highway Patrol, who arrested Frye in the sight of hundreds of irritable Negroes, were well-trained, ambitious cops who bore no overt prejudices against Negroes...