Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dunno. I've never been that close to my family. I feel really distant. I've been thinking all afternoon whether I was just drunk or if I could have stopped him. Whether I really did want it....I don't know. I mean, I was drunk, I went to his room...
Suffering has not ennobled the Ekdals. As played with ruthless candor by Richard Bauer, the father is a self-pitying drunk. His wife (Tana Hicken), prematurely gray and hardened, thinks only of money and business. Their daughter (Rebecca Ellens) is a fanciful child who has learned none of the % social graces. The self-proclaimed idealism of their friend Gregers Werle (Christopher McCann)--who moves in and reorders their lives with disastrous consequences--mingles religious fanaticism with a rich man's easy disdain for money. Fittingly, the production ends without the comfort of catharsis, in a fistfight between the unrepentant Gregers...
Twenty-three thousand Americans died last year in drunk driving accidents...
...GOOD FRIEND of mine was driving drunk late one night and split his car in two. He was thrown 20 feet out the back of his vehicle, landed in some bushes and 10 minutes later walked up to a person surveying the scene and in a stupor asked if there had been an accident...
...still drives drunk. I think he feels that there would be a certain romanticism in dying young, behind the wheel with beer in hand. It certainly would be an appropriate fate...