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...Mutilated brings on a pair of New Orleans floozies who have had a falling-out. One is a dead-broke wino (Kate Reid) who has been barred from her room in the Silver Dollar Hotel. The other (Margaret Leighton) has suffered a "mutilation"-one of her breasts has been removed. Reid has al ready carved this sad fact on the wall outside Leighton's apartment. Bawdily, brutally proud of her own breasts, she has herself, of course, been carved up by life. Kate Reid gives a stridently able performance, but is too self-assured for an alcoholic, and this...
What makes the plot bubble is the Behan people and the Behan gab. There is Pig's Eye O'Donnell the bet runner, Tralee Trembles the wino and ex-poet, M'sieu Le Tramtrack, who spent 30 years abed in an effort to collect damages from a trolley company, and the vigorous old lady of the International...
Hopes become specters. In the second and final act, their spouses are in Las Vegas, ready to marry each other. Pamela has become a wino; Caesario is numbing himself with work. She invites him to staunch their mutual loneliness by living with her "like brother and sister" in her Manhattan "Garden of Eden." There, in an alcoholic fuddle, they sign away their last legal rights to their mates, to Pamela's income, to Caesario's business. At play's end they are Chaplinesque waifs living in the charmed circle of innocents that includes saints, children, drunkards...
...ever did from the grandstand. Hoagland, who has himself worked at jobs like Fiddler's during summer vacations, gets off a series of brilliant set pieces: the big top going up, a sudden flare-up of fighting among the elephants, the sadly hilarious wedding day of a stupid wino and a used-up prostitute; and all through the book he weaves descriptions on the big, handsome cats that top anything of the kind in fiction...
...Esquire reached Texas last week than columnists and editors all over the state let out a howl of protest-as Esquire had doubtless expected. The Houston Press streamed a banner across Page One: HEY, TEXANS! THEY'RE SNIPING AT us AGAIN!! It compared Author Dorrity to "a wino on an overdose of Sterno [who] lashes out at everything in sight ..." Said East Texas' Kilgore News-Herald: the article "sounds as if an agent for Joe Stalin wrote it." In the Dallas News, Columnist Paul Crume, carefully misspelling the author's name, wrote: "We think the thing...