Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from occasional pseudo-political comments on something like Communism ("Perhaps like the measles it will always be with us") Reagan's book consists of a series of sentimental vignettes. We see Reagan as a child carrying his drunk father in off the porch, as a high school boy beating out his best friend for a girl, as a Hollywood actor on the set of countless grade "B" movies, recounting funnies about the stars...
...question came up with a vengeance in Darien, Conn., last November, after police raided the apartment of Michael Smith, 20, the troubled youth who brought the town a fame of sorts a year ago when he got drunk at a debutante party and accidentally drove his date to her death. That time, Smith was convicted of negligent homicide and reckless driving. This time, using a search warrant, the cops nabbed Smith and his roommate for possession of marijuana, which they said was stashed in his attic, a suitcase and a bureau drawer...
Following a misunderstanding about the hours Rod spends with his secretary, Doris flies off to Paris with an antique dealer (Sergio Fantoni). It is only a shopping junket, but Doris gets drunk, gets reckless, finally gets trapped for the night in a tiny shop where the dealer tries to arouse her interest in a highly compromising old bed. Eventually, she recaptures wedded bliss, but not until she lands by mistake in another wrong bed. In fact, she is the incarnation of a loud, bumptious, overdressed lady tourist on the town. Which raises another question: If Doris Day becomes America...
...ballerina of the Diaghilev Russian ballet. She was blonde and buxom; he was frail and stoop-shouldered, with watery blue eyes. She chucked her career to marry him. His only regret in life, said Keynes shortly before his death of a heart attack, was that he had not drunk more champagne...
Maugham cites his own example. He once met a dull couple at a dull dinner. The man had been a civil servant in Asia, and the only memorable thing about him was that he was a onetime drunk, taking a bottle to bed with him every night and finishing it before morning. His wife seemed a drab mediocrity, but she had cured her husband of drink. Out of this, Maugham contrived a superb story (Before the Party), which begins in a prim country dwelling, turns into a confession by the fat widow that she had slashed her backsliding husband...