Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a reformed drunk, France has been smugly satisfied of late with its fiscal sobriety. The French have been amassing reserves, making early repayments on their debts to the U.S., and self-righteously lecturing the U.S. about putting its balance-of-payments in order...
...film, made in 1965-66, confronts huge abstract themes, including time, love, and coincidence. Bresson creates some of the most enigmatic and interesting characters in all film, including a beautiful fatalistic young girl who is finally killed by the leader of a motorcycle gang, and a Christ-like town drunk who is perhaps a murderer...
...generally skillful, but occasionally overdone. Edward Zang's cynical Scandal is always restrained yet his open disdain for the slithery lawyer Buckram (Bernard Wurger) is still as funny as anything in the show. Wurger himself smoothly handles a three minute conversation from a blackhatted Puritan lawyer to a shyly drunk self-acknowledged stud. Gerald McGonagill as the addled astrologer Foresight, when calm, is also entertaining...
...Suicide of a Nation?, Writer and Critic Goronwy Rees reported attending a regular directors' meeting of an engineering company outside London. "The office was richly furnished with thick carpets, an Annigoni painting, and extremely expensive antique furniture. Deliberations were sweetened by drafts of gin and tonic drunk out of beakers of cut glass. The discussion followed no conceivably rational pattern; a large part of it was taken up by the sales director's amatory reminiscences of the world capitals he had most recently visited. There were frequent interruptions, by telephone, from the directors' wives, who each...
...gives the old girl a lusty whack on what follows her around. Poor Pina, delighted to have a man around the house, mistakes insult for interest. But after Adolfo gratuitously sneers at her friends ("I'm a cut above the lot of you") and falls down drunk in her backyard, Pina's patience runs out, and she tells him what a useless mess...