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...GOOD FRIEND of mine was driving drunk late one night and split his car in two. He was thrown 20 feet out the back of his vehicle, landed in some bushes and 10 minutes later walked up to a person surveying the scene and in a stupor asked if there had been an accident...
When Oscar says "All women are whores," in his drunken stupor, Wertmuller would have the audience believe that this is the comic entirety of the male anthem. Actually, Wertmuller is in error. The complete macho male anthem is that all women are whores, lesbians, or frigid. By merely introducing lesbianism or bisexuality in the women characters, this pretentious film does nothing to change men's stereotypical views of female sexuality it merely confirms one aspect of a nasty but common world view. To effectively make a feminist statement, one would have to introduce issues beyond the mundane comic plane...
...September, Neznansky, co-author of the thriller Red Square, recalled that one night in 1950, he, Gorbachev and a third man who was active in the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, raised many glasses of beer and vodka together. Gorbachev stayed sober, but the party activist slipped into a stupor. The next day, claimed Neznansky, Gorbachev denounced his friend's drinking before the Komsomol. As a result, said Neznansky, "Gorbachev promptly became the new Komsomol organizer, and that's when his path to the Kremlin began...
...think it's immoral and dangerous to have irresponsible young people running around blasted, then what about middle-aged professionals? Do we want doctors and business leaders stumbling around in a stupor, sewing people's lips to their armpits or accidentally diyesting from South America? Certainly not. These people have too many "adult responsibilities" to be out there drinking...
After the hosts unleashed one unpleasantly close shot on goal, though, the Crimson broke out of its temporary stupor. "That [shot] woke us all up," Scalise said...