Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sacred event. Webber and Rice, with a neat bit of circular logic and some imaginative rewriting, transform the Last Supper into an open fight between Jesus and Judas. While this goes on, the Apostles sit calmly by getting into their cups, oblivious of what is going on, singing a drunken ditty that gets raggeder each time they sing it and that implies that the Gospel accounts are inaccurate...
...conspicuously useless memory-laden objects-his wife's dresses, his own collection of sculpture and painting, the very size of his rooms. These keep him from understanding his life: they keep him thinking about surplus value subjectively and purely in itself, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said in a drunken Marxist moment...
...then Sumner Redstone cleared his throat, only too aware of the Paramount brass awaiting their introductions and the present Harvard administrators and his wife's eager friends certainly having the time of their dreary old Bostonian lives, and Sumner began his speech, only, to his horror, to meet with drunken laughter and then suddenly all he could see was some kid in a back row waving an empty bottle...
...intermission battle of the bands, an unidentified but easily visible drunken preppie won with his version of Gypsy Rose...
...days' worth of booze) and even a cruel one. But it is impossible to keep from smiling at Archie's dealing with a London cabbie ("He wants some bobs. Give him some bobs"). It is equally impossible to withhold sympathy over Harry's half-drunken confession: "Aside from sex-and my wife's very good at it, goddamn her-I like you guys better. I love you." Cassavetes has gambled on his characters' own humanity to bring them close and make them true...