Word: ol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offender is arrested, and that over 10 percent of all drivers on weekend nights are legally intoxicated. Citizens have to be more active in educating people about the dangers of mixing alcohol and driving. And society's view of inebriation as an acceptable means of having a good ol' time has to begin changing...
...this unfavorable attention, the I.A.C.P.'s executive committee voted only to censure, not expel him. In the end, Murphy took the incident as further proof of one of his earlier volleys at the I.A.C.P.: "By your action, you summon up the image of police chiefs as members ol an inferior vocation in public service, fearful of dissent and debate and caught in a web of conformity. In this, you don't hurt Pat Murphy, but you bring ridicule to the calling of police management...
...Leading Man Henderson Forsythe. The amateur actor drops his prop pistol, is smothered by a Texas flag and walks into a brass pole trying to exit. During a pantomime phone call, instead of staying in character, King mutters into the instrument, "Gonna drank me a batch of that ol' Cutty Sark tonight...
...that "a democratic army would mean a return to an earlier day when people of different classes and backgrounds in this nation occasionally got to know one another?" Are we to stand shoulder to shoulder and plow the fields of military prosperity, just like in the good ol' days? The similarity of this suggestion with other nostalgic images we've been treated to during the past two years is almost frightening...
Only Ronald Brown, as Gitlow Judson, avoids the pervasive half-hearted mugging and posturing. Judson, Purlie's feisty brother-in-law, retains influence over Ol' Cap'n by posing as the stereotypical obsequious cotton-picker. Brown swaggers and staggers through the play's increasingly disjointed action with true comic aplomb, bawling "There's More Than One Way of Skinnin' a Cat" with reckless disregard for his tone-deafness, and applying his sense of dramatic timing to the moments that his cohorts largely let slip...