Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founding father of the Open Air Campaigners was a 19th century remittance man named Ned Field, exiled from England for unspecified wrongdoing, who felt that he had been cured of cancer in answer to prayer. The group's present director, Reginald E. Werry, 42, was a thief, a drunk and a professional gambler, prospecting for gold in his native Australia when World War II broke out. He decided to join up to get a free trip somewhere, drove to the recruiting station in a stolen car. During four years as a war prisoner in Germany, his light-fingered ways...
...destroy their marriage, for he suspects that Ikuko, even though she is undemonstrative about sex, is really avid for it. Papa adopts a program that may well offend readers who have never before thought of themselves as prim. He takes to French brandy and encourages his wife to get drunk with him. What is more, he encourages Kimura, a young friend of his marriageable daughter, to join them. When Ikuko succumbs to brandy and occasional fainting fits, Papa takes her to bed, throws powerful lights on her nude body, and photographs her in unconventional poses. To the young friend...
...assimilation gives the Jewish author a chance to spew out all his anger at being born a Jew, at being, in some sense, alienated from the rest of society. The cast of characters is always the same: the old fashioned parents, a member of the family who habitually gets drunk at the Seder, another relative who is, embarrassingly enough, an Orthodox Jew, who actually goes to Temple and observes the directory laws. I do not ask that every Jew be a paragon of virtue, but I find novels of this genre increasingly offensive and some of them more than faintly...
...Rayburn lieutenant in the House went to the bizarre extreme of sending a case of bourbon to a boozing pro-Smith Southerner in hopes that the man would be too drunk or too hung over to go to the Hill and vote. (The plot failed: Smith men saw to it that the man got to the Capitol to cast his no.) Cracking down on liberal Republicans who had promised to vote for the Rayburn plan, Charlie Halleck at one point grabbed a Congressman by the coat lapels and literally shook him. The man staggered away cursing Halleck...
...secondary love-affair, between Bongo and a middle-aged American singer (Sylvia Sims), manages to show the shallowness of show business in general and the absurdity of this particular film. Miss Sims unwittingly gets Bongo drunk and later acts as both his mother and seducer; at the same time she wrenches his contract from the evil Harvey, plans a grand tour of the United States, and finally shouts at the unfortunate agent: "You get out of here or I'll have you thrown...