Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delineations--plays like a Black Power version of Secret Storm. Its climactic carnival scene is as baroque as the conclusion of Sinatra's Some Came Running. Stacy Keach, of MacBird, is left with nothing to do. His character, a thirties radical in the novel, has been reduced to a drunken bum (someone was afraid to dirty their camera in politics). And Singer's mute friend is grossly overplayed. I don't object to the elimination of these characters--that is the film's perogative--but I must take issue with such cardboard remains...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.). Cat Ballon (1965). Lee Marvin in his Oscar-winning dual role as a drunken gunfighter and a hilariously sinister killer. Also stars Jane Fonda...
...aged businessmen, silly, frustrated wives, a good-natured call girl and a footloose young male hustler. All of them are compelled to pretend to one another and to themselves that they are having a good time. A good time is "having a lot of laughs," and their laughter-inane, drunken, forced-explodes and cackles frantically throughout the film. They feed one another stupid jokes, lies and childish games to keep the laughter coming. When it cracks, the bewilderment and despair leak out into the room and turn the laughers sick, self-pitying or snarling...
...Pope says there's a way for birth control. Yes, let's tell the Pope to talk about fertile periods with an illiterate woman and talk about abstinence with a drunken and brutal man who keeps his woman like a slave...
...surprise marijuana raid. New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the archconservative Manchester Union Leader, followed with a front-page exposé titled "Bare Debauchery at Franconia College." The newspaper charged that "drugs, alcohol and sex are among the main ingredients of campus life. Naked and drugged or drunken men and women have been seen running through the halls at night, and orgies and nude parties have occurred." The accusations, supposedly based on secret reports from an unidentified informant, probably exaggerated the situation at Franconia. Nonetheless, the attack alarmed many local citizens, and one town restaurant posted signs announcing that long...