Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger obviously did tell someone is not surprising, given the book's descriptions of Kissinger's real attitude toward the President. Kissinger not only called Nixon "our meatball President" in front of aides, but at various times used such harsh terms as irrational, insecure, maniacal, dangerous, our drunken friend, like a madman, and said he possessed a "second-rate mind." He also thought Nixon was antiSemitic. Kissinger, explains the book, "saw in the President an antagonistic, gut reaction which stereotyped Jews and convinced Nixon that they were his enemies." One sign of that attitude was Nixon...
...Inserts are close-ups, garish interludes in the process of the whole." So explains Richard Dreyfuss as The Boy Wonder, a washed-up wunderkind silent-film director. Inserts, the film, is also a garish interlude, examining the transformation of an accomplished and talented young movie-maker into a drunken pornographic film director. The story itself involves the efforts of The Boy Wonder to finish shooting a porno flick in the course of a single afternoon, all in the living room of The Boy Wonder's Hollywood Spanish mansion. A "degenerate film with dignity," tacked with an "X" rating, conjures images...
...nice soft shoe in a satirical love song, called "Easy to Please." Even the bumbling has been made into more interesting dance with Judith Haskell, who doubled as choreographer this year. Robert Peabody as Flo Gently, who incidentally comes off with the best all-around performance, does this difficult drunken-dance routine in "High Steppin' Lady," and later, with Preston Folded (Mark Kiely), they dance up a quiet little storm in the "Cold Turkey Trot" (one of the funniest numbers in the show...
...years seem to have no effect on my spirit whatsoever. Eventually I will be so good I cannot be ignored." Only a few years before, he had written, "I wonder if that sharp agony of words will occur to me again. I wonder if I shall ever be drunken with rhythms anymore. I am twenty-six and I am not young anymore." The defiance disappeared with success, but the self-doubt nagged at him throughout his life. Twenty years later, at the height of his popularity, he wrote, "I'm forty-six now and if I am going...
...into businesses that the bank itself was legally forbidden to enter: leasing of airplanes, trucks and vending machines, purchase of consumer-loan, management consulting and real-estate development companies. Meanwhile, bank representatives competed in scouring the country for customers. Says Rutgers University Professor Paul Nadler: "Everyone was on a drunken kick. Banking became a high-volume, low-markup business...