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  • The Emerald City is full of steeply inclined walls suggesting a drunkard's vision of the Chrysler Building lobby.

    The Wizard of Oz - review 2011

  • He paid as much attention to the floorboards or the tangle of buddleia in the yard below as he would to a woman's belly, Leigh Bowery's feminine bulk, Bruce Bernard's stoic drunkard's poise, Lord Goodman's vanity, Sue the Benefits Supervisor's affected boredom.

    Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck 2011

  • Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance.

    Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood 2011

  • So, too, is "Under the Volcano" 1984, based on Malcolm Lowry's mysteriously well-regarded novel, about a drunkard's last day on earth in pre-World War II Mexico.

    The Man Who Would Be King Richard Schickel 2011

  • "Men," she cries, "don't you want to be saved from a drunkard's fate?"

    Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

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    Boing Boing 2008

  • He's smart and serious and terribly embarrassed at where he's ended up in his "drunkard's walk," the series of seemingly "random" events that caused him to lose his house and be on the dole.

    Voters Haven't Given Up On American Dream 2010

  • Now, when you're talking about a party convened by drunkard's saint Shane MacGowan, things could have certainly gone South very quickly.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Reel Fanatic 2010

  • He's smart and serious and terribly embarrassed at where he's ended up in his "drunkard's walk," the series of seemingly "random" events that caused him to lose his house and be on the dole.

    Lisa Solod Warren: Voters Haven't Given Up On American Dream 2010

  • Whether the drunkard's fight is against a tent, his flip-flops, or a mildly steep hill, when you've had this much to drink, everything becomes an epic battle.

    Drunks vs. EVERYTHING: The Funniest Inebriated Fights With Inanimate Objects (VIDEOS) 2010

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