Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sewers. Last week, testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee that is trying to write sensible guidelines for such taxes, Caloric Corp. Vice President Werner N. Davidson complained: "Today the overlapping state, county, city and school-district tax structure reminds me of a pyramid built by drunken Egyptians...
Innuendo roars through Silencers, with nothing omitted save scrawling feelthy pictures on the screen. Now and then, Martin sleepily warbles a song parody, his way of adding sauce to all the gleeful violence, drunken driving and self-conscious smut. Chief compensation over the Ion? haul is Stella Stevens' zany, refreshing performance as a tourist who flees a conducted bus tour and plunges into escapades with the resolute air of a girl making every minute of her vacation count...
...must wrench himself from the womb of place. To be reborn, he must be unborn. He must blot out the streets and scents of Ballybeg. He must stop his ears against the voices of friends and their loutish camaraderie. He must stiffen in the embrace of the drunken schoolmaster, a surrogate father who has fed Gareth's blind yearnings as surely as his true father has starved his spirit. And he must face the vision of what he may become, in the person of a blowsy ginned-up Irish-American aunt who is making his exodus to America possible...
Ignorant Texans are the targets, and Scenarist Hellman blows the lid off a snake pit of contemporary evil when the town's bad boy, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford), escapes from prison and heads home to settle scores among a scroungy lot of drunken, wife-swapping, white-collar workers who carry their pistols to parties of a Saturday night. "Shoot a man for sleepin' with someone's wife?" cries a roundheeled young matron, Janice Rule. "Half the town 'ud be wiped out." Poor Bubber's Mama (Miriam Hopkins), cast as Parental Guilt, hysterically accepts blame...
...through the jungles of Ecuador searching desperately for help. He had just escaped from a mob of machete-wielding natives who had attacked his camp and back in the tent, Raymond A. Paynter and his wife, Harvard ornithologists, were lying unconscious--badly cut and left for dead by the drunken Ecuadorans...