Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presence in public is not his act," argued Judge Albert Bryan. "It may be likened to the movement of an imbecile, or a person in a delirium. The upshot of our decision is that the state cannot stamp an unpretending chronic alcoholic as a criminal if his drunken public display is involuntary as the result of disease. However, nothing we have said precludes appropriate detention of him for treatment and rehabilitation so long as he is not marked a criminal...
...seeking womanizer who cynically boasts that he survived the occupation by "buying and selling." He shares his easy-to-bed wife (Barbara Polomska) with an enemy Hungarian officer, learns that the fleeing Hungarians will lend men and guns to help the Polish Home Army. Before the Poles refuse, the drunken, don't-give-a-damn patriot hustles messages back and forth, so ludicrous a target that a thundering German tank blasts him only with derision. At one point, he joins a long line of evacuees and is forced to shoulder household goods for a peasant woman, a greedy...
...sheer fun, the top movie was Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, a nostalgic, slapstick, visual comedy closely followed by Cat Ballon, with Lee Marvin in a sidesplitting parody of all the drunken, woolly bad 'uns ever portrayed. For sheer horror it was Repulsion, by Poland s young Roman Polanski, the new master of the monstrous. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold was the spy thriller to end all spy thrillers-and perhaps about time...
...appointed to office at 40, promoted, if successful, at 50, and retired at 70. Disraeli might proclaim that "almost everything that is great has been done by youth." But the vast majority agreed instead with Lord Chesterfield, who remarked, "Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough...
...playing against the saccharine. She is achingly real without ever being soppy, whether cursing her fate, dodging flatware during a pitched battle between Winters and Ford, or unemotionally explaining to Poitier that she is "experienced" with men because of a brutal encounter with one of her mother's drunken beaus...