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Word: drunkenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the cast can't match Zawawi's power, but special mention goes to Tom Tremoulet for creating an elegantly arrogant yet ultimately insecure Brandon. Valerie Beck is also superb as the tipsy, irreverent flapper Leila Arden. Adam Selipsky was less successful at portraying the weak, drunken Granillo, turning to over-acting at times--it is hard to imagine a college kid literally shrieking with nerves. And Charlie Kempf was guilty of a touch of woodenness, even in the role of the basically awkward and wooden Kenneth Raglan, the varsity athlete...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Knot Nice | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

...jacket, a mother's frying pan, a sister's dress and, the play's most symbolic prop, the leather strap. For three hours actors and patients work at making a whole out of their disparate scenes. What emerges is a riveting pastiche in which children are beaten by drunken parents, humiliated by everyone, and, above all, forced to exist in a world of aching loneliness: a child in a wheelchair dreams of riding a bike, another child makes an imaginary phone call to a schoolmate who has rejected him. In the final scene a child is confronted by his tormentors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Theater Therapy | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Student Injured After Falling From Window in Drunken Brawl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

...student was injured last Saturday after he was pushed from a second-story window in a drunken brawl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, it seems that an archaic rule prevents drunken Americans from dropping in on royalty. Thinking quickly, I don a fake mustache, cowboy hat, and Texas accent, and pretend to be an oil millionaire interested in paying cash for the domain of Scotland. I am courteously ushered...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Windsor War | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

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