Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level of liquor consumption often calls for some precautionary measures to remind revelers of the dangers of drunken driving. Two trailers from the Hennepin County Alcohol Safety Project offer breath tests to volunteers who want to know their intoxication levels. The police administer the program and drive the vans, but are good sports about leaving before the tailgaters drive off. Says Policeman Don Bowles, "If we stayed any longer, we'd have to arrest half the people here...
...more explicitly winked at than in previous years. In last week's first episode of NBC's Diana, starring Diana Rigg as what the producers identify as a "fun-loving divorcee" (a somewhat more sophisticated Mary Tyler Moore?), Diana slept in the same bed with a drunken stranger. In NBC's The Girl with Something Extra, E.S.P. is the coyly reconcilable difference between Newlyweds Sally Field (the former Flying Nun) and John Davidson. ABC's Adam's Rib, based on the 1949 Tracy and Hepburn film, claims to inject a touch of Women...
...company sat quietly, absorbing the lines. "Quite a poem to have your grandmother read you," someone remarked, and someone else nodded piously. "I know a poem like that," the drunken student repeated and as everyone stared at him in amazement, he began to quaver a song...
...Everhart is splendid in his one comic cameo as the drunken Porter. Coleridge thought this scene spurious, but it is genuine Shakespeare and inspired dramaturgy. After murdering Duncan, Macbeth hears the chilling pounding at the gate and has second thoughts: "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!" How follow such a climactic moment? Shakespeare's solution was perfect. The only comparable spot I can think of occurs in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, when the full chorus climaxes thrillingly with words about "standing before God," and is followed by the ludicrously syncopated sounds of a distant...
...Angels in California. He sought an antidote to the sensationalism and misrepresentation they were receiving at the hands of the press. While maintaining a reporter's role, he rode with the motorcycle gang, getting full exposure to the broken home life, intense love of fast choppers, wild orgies and drunken brawls, even suffering a brutal stomping at the end of his relationship with them. Although the means tended toward violence, the end result of this gonzo journalistic venture was a full and objective portrayal of the life style that Thompson compiled in "Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga...