Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what many think but are uncomfortable saying or even thinking--i.e.=me," reads one scrawled comment below "Dirty." "Fucking brilliant imagery," declares another. Some, like "Oedipus," offer encouragement: "Tokio--Baudelaire said, 'Every idea is endowed with immortal life.' Keep writing." (Tokio's elliptic response: "Get drunk.") Others offer their own verses, like this one addressed "To Tokio...
...really evade its darker implications. Director Waris Hussein doesn't try. His style is objective without being cool or repressed in the all-too- common English manner. He avoids playing for big laughs the mostly awful social situations in which his characters find themselves. Even a drunk scene between Plowright and Moreau is low-keyed. It is very agreeable to discover a movie in which everything is not foreshadowed, underlined, commented upon. In other words, The Summer House is disciplined in the way that British theatrical productions often are. As a result, the story's somewhat surprising conclusion actually surprises...
...Brooklyn apartment, he would remove his artificial leg along with his trousers. Pete remembers them hanging over a chair in the bedroom and the smell of vomit. He had his first fight when a boy named Brother Foppiano taunted in a singsong, "Your old man's an Irish drunk! Your old man's an Irish drunk...
...alcoholic's child, of course, hates what the sauce has done to his ) father: "I didn't want to be like my father," Hamill writes. "I didn't want to be a drunk." Yet drinking meant manhood. It was, he later decided, "the sacramental binder of friendships . . . the reward for work, the fuel for celebration, the consolation for death or defeat. Drinking gave me strength, confidence, ease, laughter." Hamill as a boy was obsessed by the comics, including Captain America, who began as mild-mannered Steve Rogers but then drank a magic serum that transformed him into a brilliant pile...
...There are two ways you can tell when a man is lying," said Charles Bohlen, a respected former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. "One is when he says he can drink champagne all night and not get drunk. The other is when he says he understands Russians...