Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When José Flores drove on the wrong side of the road near Santa Rosa, Calif., and hit an oncoming car, one of the victims, Colenda Ward, 12, suffered irreversible brain damage. Flores, 23, was charged with manslaughter and felonious drunken driving. But there was a macabre technicality. After determining that Colenda had suffered cerebral death, doctors successfully transplanted her heart into a patient at the Stanford University Medical Center...
Such airs, though, are drunken sport for Sir Toby Belch and company as they plot to entangle the most self-righteous courtier ever created. "Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" thunders Sir Toby to puritanical Malvolio, who, for his pains, ends up locked up and abused as a madman...
...part seems smaller than usual as a result and in general this is very much a team production. Its strengths lie in the unpetty pace with which it progresses, in the deft handling of the interludes, especially that of the wonderfully bawdy drunken doorkeeper, who might however try to get his lines out from under his intoxication more cleanly, and in the elaborate staging. The setting is not particularly inspired, but it works, in such scenes as Macbeth's slow progress up the stairs which enclose the stage front to Duncan's chamber, or the massing of figures...
...speech directed at Sen. Joe McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings ("Have you no sense of decency. Have you, at long last, no sense of decency..."), plays the judge in Otto Preminger's puzzling courtroom story with Jimmy Stewart as the country lawyer, Arthur O'Connel as the drunken partner Stewart arouses, George C. Scott as savage prosecutor, Duke Ellington score and piano...
...expulsion from Eden. What is a Scotsman? Jack undergoes a case of nine-year shock trying to answer. First he becomes a non-Irishman-a "neutral man," practically evaporating in the arms of his girl Elizabeth, a perfect colleen stereotype with "about seventy-six brothers and sisters, and a drunken no-good father...