Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being modest; at times his brush could paint Hollywood Boulevard in one swath. Known for his fierce preparation for a role, he lived in a car while playing the punk in Valley Girl, wore bandages off the set as a blind Vietnam vet in Birdy, videotaped himself drunk for Leaving Las Vegas. Some of his very early performances were mannerist bordering on the grotesque, and he was almost fired from Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona and Moonstruck. "I was learning to act publicly," he admits, "and sometimes I'd fall on my face. I was an acquired taste...
...reader feels, for the shrewd Virgil of the next section, who reluctantly accepts the stony verdict of his family and acquaintances, including the local sheriff, that he must kill the man who murdered his wild brother Boyd. The author does his impressive best to make this believable, writing a drunk scene in which Virgil sprawls on his back in the night woods and stares at the Milky Way. Virgil sobers up and, as efficiently as a spy-story villain, creates an elaborate false identity for himself, kills his man and drives off to Montana...
...Steven T. Driscoll, who struck Sarah T. Craig '99 and three other Harvard students on May 22 while driving drunk, fatally injuring Craig, pleads guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the Litchfield, Conn., Superior Court. Driscoll is sentenced to ten years in prison...
...laundry list of allegations in the report included several suspected drug deals at one club, a reported attack by a first-year who became drunk while visiting a club, repeated reports of sexual harassment, a complaint about lewd sexual acts performed by hired women and a complaint from a parent who said her son had been the victim of hazing by a club...
...pathetic mama's boy who can find release and some measure of independence only with Hong Kong bar girls, "the happy hello-goodbye of urgent sex." Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute: "Brandy was gleaming on Mr. Hung's lips. He looked drunk, his face pinkish and raw, his eyes boiled, and he was smiling in a vicious way as he chewed with his mouth open." And if bad table manners are not disgusting enough, Hung may be guilty of murdering one of Imperial Stitching's working women...