Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...along Fulton and Nostrand avenues ebb and flow like a tide. Dudes are gambling up and down the streets. The sweet smell of reefer is everywhere, and wine bottles are passed around. Up the block, twelve-year-old hookers teeter on high heels, flouncing their boyish hips. There are drunken brawls, skin-and-bone addicts overdosing, police sirens screaming and the rattle of the el in the distance...
...years Christian West is in drunken stupor while Moslem East is sober! Henry Ratliff...
...people are people" and all the mindless meanderings of secular humanism. Rather. it's that nobody bothers with all the posters and the statues and the tanks because who needs to think about them? When you get right down to it, they all represent the same thing, another drunken dream that got hopelessly fucked...
Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) walks into what we take for his house late in the night and finds himself enmeshed in one of those late night drunken conversations with the woman there, who, though it's not important, we're led to believe is his wife or lover. What matters is the uneasy alliance. The conversation is half bullshit and half frustration. Maybe it's a breakthrough and maybe it's the Beam. It goes on just a little too long and it doesn't get anywhere. It's 2 a.m. life, and you realize that you've been here...
While a very roughhewn justice is dealt the plot, Trinculo, the jester, has become a blowsy demimondaine (Lola Pashalinski), and her companion, the drunken butler Stephano (Louis Zorich), looks like a disheveled French chef with a torn toque blanche. The pair do a crude parody of Mae West...