Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grown up in New York City is supposed to be accustomed to handling street hassles. If she hasn't been kidnapped at infancy from a baby carriage parked in front of the A and P, she will still have a good chance of being accosted by a drunken sailor (probably a fag, besides), robbed, heckled, smoked out of a Midson Avenue bus by a pyromaniac lighting matches on the back seat, and altogether pinched so often and in so many strange places that if the IRT subway line could be held responsible and sued it would go bankrupt faster than...
...infirm or accident-prone-off the roads. Complains David Phillips, an official of the State Farm Insurance Companies: "State authorities don't have the political guts to take licenses away from irresponsible drivers. Our files bulge with people insured under assigned-risk plans despite five-to-eight drunken-driving citations." In other areas of insurance, home owners will probably have to accept $250-deductible clauses if fire and theft rates are to be kept anywhere within reason. There will be no real relief, though, so long as the nation continues to set records for crashing, stealing and burning. Until...
...truth comes out shortly after Rivers returns to the Midwest to give a lecture. He stumbles off the stage in a drunken torpor, bashes his head and ends up recuperating in his old room at Mrs. Wallop's. She not only takes very effective charge of Rivers' recovery but also manages his love life and press relations. He in turn tells her that the harpy of his novel is really meant to be his own mother...
Some scenes, like a blue-lit stroll down the Faubourg, like a dance-hall in which two silk-swathed women dance a drunken, passionate tango, like an amphitheatre-like hospital for the mentally ill where the whiteness of the walls is relieved only by the paleness of pallid flesh, are demonically spell-binding. In fact, the succession of images-a giant stone head of Mussolini dragged across a bridge by two motorcycles, the fire-lit nude body of a homosexual eating dead cats amid the ruins of the Forum, Trintignant's eyes-recalls Fellini Satyricon in their bizarre intensity...
...Moore Show, on opening night at least, was a disaster for the old co-star of the Dick Van Dyke Show. She plays an inadvertent career girl, jilted by the rounder she put through medical school, and working as a "gofer" at a Minneapolis TV station. Her bosses, a drunken clown of a news director and a narcissistic nincompoop of an anchorman, do an injustice to even the worst of local TV news...