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...together, an ideal candidate for a scholarship to Yale (class of 1958), and that's what he got. In New Haven the poor, bright, pint-sized Midwesterner felt left out, though his classmates were dazzled by his ability to make instant anagrams out of any name that was mentioned ("Alec Guinness" became "genuine class"). Along with French and German, he acquired a great many cultural tag lines and thriftily squirreled them away in the back of his mind for future use. Cavett is certainly the only comedian extant who could say, "Where did we get this obsession that exegesis...
...virtues, dealing with people up to old vices. In an English seaside resort more than 30 years ago, "Pip" Stuart, a young photographer, seems about to marry the ironmonger's daughter and settle down to a lifetime of prams with now and then a pint at the corner pub. But a West Country Emma Bovary puts Pip's still-life future out of focus. Bored to a frenzy by small-town domesticity, Lorna, a doctor's wife, passes on to Pip the 20th century's most communicable disease: restlessness. With her red sports car, and golden...
Quantity consumed is only one criterion-and not necessarily the decisive one. "We see little old ladies who drink less than a pint a day who are dying," says Harold Swift, of the Hazelden Foundation's model treatment facility in Minnesota. "Yet we see men who go through better than a fifth a day and still function well...
Such frightening studies of the results of drinking have not yet been accepted throughout the medical profession, but the physical effects on an alcoholic of very heavy drinking are beyond dispute. A pint of whisky a day, enough to make eight or ten ordinary highballs, provides about 1,200 calories-roughly half the ordinary energy requirement-without any food value. As a result, an alcoholic usually has a weak appetite and often suffers from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency. The slack cannot be taken up by popping vitamin pills; heavy alcohol consumption impairs the body's utilization of vitamins...
...Erie Smith (Ben Gazzara), a small-time hustler and horseplayer. Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A-some punk burg") returns early one morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...