Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mauch was running short of fingernails. "They say we're tense," he growled. "They'll bite those words." Baltimore's Bauer, of course, was considerably more relaxed. "What do you do now?" somebody asked after the Orioles committed two errors, booted a game 10-3. "Get drunk," said Bauer candidly...
...critics. Their sour stomachs dis tend and churn when they hear that we have discovered gold nuggets on the banks of Flushing Creek. The truth is that they hate like hell to see the fair moving to success. I don't overrate these people, but one drunk can interrupt a Mass; a rotten egg can silence Hamlet, and a stink bomb can empty a theater...
Despite Bertrand's roll call of lady loves, Amelinha to Yvette, little actually happens. Episode 1: Bertrand sun? himself on the beach at Rio with his mistress Mathilde and thinks about other women. Episode 2: he gets drunk at a Paris literary party thrown for him by his mistress Irene and thinks about other women. Episode 3: he wanders the streets of Manhattan after breaking up with Leslie and thinks about other wom en. Episode 4: he takes Francine to bed-and she should have kicked him out for thinking about other women. Total result of all this phenomenological...
Black slumlords shout about the iniquity of white slumlords, and nobody knows that they themselves own tenements. Black runners collect numbers for white bankers, and black pushers sell dope for white gangsters. Black nationalists preach "buy black," then get drunk on whisky from a white man's store. Black preachers damn Jewish shopkeepers for overcharging black customers, then milk the blacks dry over the collection plate. Black Communists weep over the Negro...
Asselin has the advantage of a drunk scene, and a better sense of timing, but he is not much better...