Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LITTLE LEARNING is a dangerous thing," moralizes one of the characters in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, out of the depths of a drunken stupor. And the play could, if necessary, be reduced to that epigram and a couple of others, equally trite but true. But Kanin does such a good job of sugar-coating his didacticism that it usually remains palatable, even enjoyable. His "gems of wisdom" come in the rough, as drunken wisecracks or cute malapropisms ("This country belongs to the people who inhibit it,") and it is only in the final scene that the play seems...
...Globe thus viewed itself as a responsible party in the busing feud, and its editors shed the pretense of pursuing truth when they agreed to suppress some aspects of the news. Because forecasts of violence might be reckless or drunken prophecies from self-appointed augurs, they are perhaps not news and should not be printed anyway, but the Winship mandate betrays a self-important attitude maintained by the fourth estate over this two-week period, that it must support the state in its efforts to integrate...
Meanwhile, crowds awaiting the jump were partying and building bonfires against the night chill. Bikers and their women stripped naked and drove through the fires on drunken dares. Two beer trucks were ransacked and a few latrines burned to the ground. Some 25 people lurched off the jump ramp, apparently intent on burning it, but were turned aside by shotgun-toting deputies and the sobering information that Knievel could not perform without his ramp...
...substance is hard to find--if the kid upstairs was listening to one particular drunken conversation down there he'd be asleep in no time: it's just the chorus that keeps him wide-eyed. So when George Segal can't stand up to scrutiny because it's cliched, or when Eliot Gould's gambler is shallow, it's no reflection on the excellent performances or the overall intelligence of the film...
...enforcement was devoted to the story of a teen-age gang that killed two tellers in a Ukraine bank robbery. Literaturnaya Gazeta not long ago ran a detailed account of an incident reminiscent of a macabre scene from A Clockwork Orange: two teen-agers beat to death four drunken adults in the industrial city of Chelyabinsk...