Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vasily abruptly dropped from public notice after Stalin's funeral in 1953, earned his own destalinization even before his father was disgraced. He drank more heavily than ever, was busted from the air force, reportedly killed a woman while driving drunk. Rumors swirled about his fate: he was in a sanatorium for the mentally ill; he was in jail; he was in a Russian arctic slave labor camp. Last week's report ended the speculation: mourners bringing flowers to a grave in a Saratov cemetery noticed a new tombstone engraved with the name of Stalin...
...Drunk & Livid. Born in the late 18th century, dueling fraternities were originally aimed at preventing bloodshed betweei campus brawlers armed with pikes and daggers. As it turned out, they ritualized the violence. Setting rigid patterns of drinking and dueling, they became lodges of the most socially acceptable students. Each new member, called a fox, had to prove himself in at least two duels, and later fight a dozen or so bouts as a blooded brother. Cheek scars were so prized that men with minor abrasions inflamed them with pepper or beer, or by placing a horsehair...
...much sugar in his Tiffin. As for Ann-Margret, she has the energy of a Texas twister. But Comedian Wally Cox, who plays a judge in the preserves division, brings off the best scene in the picture, a side-busting sequence in which the meek little fellow gets roaring drunk on mincemeat...
...inscrutably deadpan face exasperates everyone who lays eyes upon it. Bandy's blank exterior hides nothing but innocence. Son of a Canadian cleric, he is unsullied by liquor or women. But then Bandy goes off to fight in World War I and lurches into manhood like a drunk stumbling down a flight of stairs-always headed in the right direction but never quite in control of himself or the situation...
Lieut. Bandy learns about liquor when he is sent off on a trench raid with a canteen filled with rum: magnificently drunk, he loses his bearings, raids his own trench, and kidnaps his colonel. Bandy needs all of his Christian resolve to avoid being seduced by a pillow-breasted wench: "She clutched her arms around my head, burying my face even deeper in her bosom until my nose was bent almost double against her sternum and her nipples were stuck in my earholes like a stethoscope...