Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George, the history professor, and his wife Martha lead lives of noisy, clawing desperation. Martha is drunk, vituperative-she brays "Screw you" at George at the precise moment that the door opens on her guest couple, invited in at 2 a.m. for a nightcap after a faculty party. By rights, Nick, the young biology professor, and his wife Honey ought to squirm and leave, but Honey is a remarkably opaque ninny who promptly proceeds to get throwing-up drunk on brandy, and Nick proves to be made of sneakily ambitious stuff that will not permit him to turn his back...
When the police threatened to arrest the entire band if the leaders did not identify themselves, a number of lower-level band officials stepped forward. Seven of them, along with a local drunk, were loaded into a paddy-wagon and taken to the police station...
...drunk I took bottles for girls, and girls for bottles." See BOOKS, "If We Only Knew...
...practicing doctor. Chekhov had tuberculosis for 20 years and did nothing about it until it was too late. One of history's most prolific story writers, Chekhov spent months trying to write a novel, never got much past Chapter 3. A lively ladies' man ("I was so drunk I took bottles for girls, and girls for bottles"), he was skittish about marriage and invited his sister Masha on his honeymoon...
JAMIE (Jason Robards Jr.), the elder son. is a writer who never really wrote and an actor who can hardly act, a noisy Irish drunk who at 33 has just about worn out his ne'er-do-welcome. But he loves his younger brother well enough to warn him that he hates him too and wishes he were dead-that way he wouldn't have to compare their talents and admit his own inferiority...