Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worse than that produced when any fleshy part of the body is hit with a hard object: a bruise, from the breaking of minute blood vessels. A long succession of moderate contusions (bruises), which cause slow, leaky hemorrhages, may permanently damage small parts of the brain, causing the "punch-drunk" state in veteran pugilists...
...picture--a funfest of wild drinking, bad words, sexy scenes and naughty thoughts, with a few fat moral issues to cement them together in the plot. But this movie is not a celebration of barbarism, nor even a squalid stripping of souls on the "Marty" bandwagon. If you arrive drunk or depressed you may not enjoy yourself, because there are admittedly some pretty unpleasant scenes. Your date may not enjoy herself, because there's no heroine to identify with...
...necktie. His wife has abandoned lisle hose for nylon and wears a girdle. Their children no more appear in hand-me-downs; working-class boys wear blazers, and girls blue jeans. More dramatic, say merchants, are changes in their choice of food and furnishings. Twice as much sherry is drunk today as ten years ago. Housewives ignore cheap meat cuts in favor of chicken and roast beef; avocados and chow mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with more money to spend, has adopted what was once an upper-class custom: dining out. Women...
...Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley, Katherine Anne Porter and Hart Crane. With these qualifications, his memoirs might be expected to say something significant. But although his anecdotes are amusing and interesting, they are only dimly illuminating. Somehow the fact that Hart Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing his typewriter out a window becomes more important than his poetry. All in all, the book brings to mind a remark of Joseph Conrad's: "In plucking the fruit of memory, one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom...
...course, she's jes' fine in the rest of those numbers too. At Hernando's Hideaway, she gets deliciously and most raucously drunk; before that, with bowler, smock and tights, she's given us "Steam Heat" (Janet Mendelsohn and Charon Lee Cohen, the show's choreographer, assist her in that). Accoutered as she is she'd heat up any union...