Word: blotto
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...owned movies, TV, nightclubs, stage shows, and the singer had hit records (That's Amore, Memories Are Made of This) on the side. When they split up in 1956, he segued smoothly into leading-man roles. He Rat-Packed and six-packed, patenting the image of the blotto bon vivant. In 1964 he bumped the Beatles off the top of the charts with Everybody Loves Somebody, then wandered through his own hit variety show for nine seasons...
...friends gather, as they have for many years on this day, at the home of two elderly sisters for dancing and supper. They sing songs and make speeches. They quarrel about the opera and worry about the drunkenness of one man while not noticing that another is getting quietly blotto. It's every awful party we have ever attended, and Huston is wonderfully ambiguous about it: affectionate toward the hospitable impulses at work here, slyly satirical about the clumsy ways these impulses are expressed...
...result is that free food, an inducement from the old days, is making a comeback as an alcohol absorber. Instead of simply getting blotto, early evening patrons can load up on appetizers. Many owners are glad to see happy hours on the wane, because the competitive discounting drains profits. Also, says one Boston barkeep, "nobody likes to deal with drunks...
...Blotto, The Graphics and Petit Mal--the Rat The Suburbs and Sex-Execs--Streets, 1239 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...with the TV show, most of the roles have been recast. Realizing that John Belushi's maniacal Bluto is irreplaceable, the series' creators have wisely retired him from action. In Delta House, Bluto has fled Faber forever, to be succeeded by a younger brother known as Blotto. Josh Mostel, who plays the sibling, shares Belushi's girth but is otherwise attempting to create an "animal" of a different stripe. Where Bluto guzzled beer, Blotto guzzles beer bottles...