Word: drunkenness
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...light, trees, the sun. The South is mediocrity, violence, boosterism, glorified ignorance. It is friendliness and a joy in simple pleasures -and simple ideas. It is row upon row of churches, Maginot-like bastions against the Forces of Darkness. It is the Darkness as well: a lust for guilty, drunken excess. And, perhaps most memorably, the South is sudden visions of Eden, like crossing the Black Warrior River in Alabama at dusk and looking down to see the Peaceable Kingdom, painted in gold and rust...
...Capote, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Barbara Hutton have in common? Answer: things have been working out fine for them. Sort of. Writer Capote, now finishing his high-society novel Answered Prayers, didn't have a prayer in a Southampton, L.I., court last week, when he pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge. He was fined $165 and ordered to enroll in a state-run driver-rehabilitation program. Nobel Prizewinning Author Solzhenitsyn and Wife Natalya have learned Western ways too fast. She was at the wheel of their van when a Kansas highway patrolman pulled her over for doing...
...that he may have subverted la gloire de France by recognizing "sparks of genius" in someone "so barbarous, so low, so unbridled and so absurd" as William Shakespeare. Voltaire has decreed that the scenes of debauch at the Danish court in Hamlet could only have been written by "a drunken savage...
...Actor James Stacy, 39, the former co-star of the television series Lancer, was a touching figure throughout a court battle in Los Angeles. Stacy's arm and leg had been amputated after a drunken driver sideswiped his motorcycle in 1973, at the same time killing Stacy's passenger. Insisted his lawyer, Irving H. Green: "Stacy would have been able to command a million dollars a movie had his career been allowed to develop." Basing its decision on a 1953 California statute that persons who knowingly sell liquor to someone who is "obviously intoxicated" can be held liable...
Kevin Reilly and John Harnes are also impressive in their roles as James Daley, the principal who is old and tired far beyond his years, and his alcoholic brother Tom. Harnes mercifully avoids stereotypical drunken mannerisms in his characterization, subtly evoking an image of failure as he hides behind the bottle. Unlike the others, Tom Daley has fallen past mediocrity into outright failure--he alone harbors no illusions of glory in either the past or present. Cynically resigned to his failure, Tom suggests that only by injuring the star of the opposing team did their school win the championship...