Word: stuporously
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Pretty pathetic creature. He hides out at the local bar and tries to forget his troubles by downing shot after shot of whiskey. When he finally seeks help for his woes, it is not A.A. he calls but another broken soul who has sipped himself into a perpetual stupor. So what do you think? Is Roger Rabbit an alcoholic...
...Jamie (Fox) certainly has seen too much of the bright lights in the big city when we first encounter him. It's six a.m. on a work day, and Jamie is still lingering in a stupor at the Palladium, staring at a skinheaded female bartender who's asking him what's wrong. "You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning," an overvoice tells us, quoting the first line of McInerney's second-person account...
...because of its perceived intrinsic moral taint. Even without law, it is something that demands contrition. Why? Because, to summarize much that has been said on the subject, it is a decadent, nihilistic, frivolous giving over of one's consciousness and self-control to the pleasures of a waking stupor. Fine. But any moral reasoning that leads you to call immoral that kind of self-surrender must lead you to conclude the same about drinking, which can get you to a stretch of Lethe-land right next door to marijuana...
...rush of events in which his staff members, normally his shield, became adversaries in their unsightly scramble for cover. His ignorance about the issues, his inability to focus on complexity, to sort out chronology, and his shock at the sudden loss of popular affection produced a kind of stupor...
...faithful to his wife (Kate Burton) or sneak off to join a handsome widow who has urged a liaison (Kathryn Walker), when who should appear on his doorstep but an old flame (Kim Cattrall), now his best friend's new bride, to whom he impulsively proposed elopement in a stupor after lunch. Doors slam; people hop out from bushes and then back behind them; Platonov carries on simultaneous conversations, and the wrong people hear him. This might be French bedroom farce, except that lives are at stake. Whatever Platonov decides, his little world will not reach equilibrium again...