Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yessir?" said the young man, who was already beginning to resent the stench of alcohol on the older man's breath. He looked quietly at the other's bulging stomach. His coach had warned him about liquor...
Other articles by new Poonies start out with good ideas but drag on and on past the point of humor. This misfortune befalls Robert A. Rosenberg in "Mopey Dick." which attempts a chapter-by-chapter account of Herman Melville's classic. "Athelsm and Alcohol." by David H. Gaylin, is an example of another piece which begins nicely-giving an account of the goings-on inside Ye Olde Joynte and Lushe-Haus-but fizzles out toward...
...Crowley moves like a recording angel, catching every nuance, every diphthong of homosexual patter. But the script is marked by more than an appraiser's eye and an unforgetting ear. The author well knows the men Proust called "sons without a mother." He delineates the reliance on alcohol and drugs to pull a shade over the mind; the loveless encounters that begin with need and end with arrest; the deadly message of the mirror that announces the ebbing of the physical attractiveness that is the homosexual's main solace...
...copy of the Saturday Evening Post. His wife has a combination of eros and vulnerability rarely seen outside Scandinavian movies, but Wilson prefers his hostile inamorata-possibly because she has almost no dialogue. To combat the strains of shuttling, the uneasy rider takes on huge loads of alcohol and begins alienating wife, children, colleagues and himself...
...fact be acknowledging how influential a model that generation was." Add to that the painful adjustments that every adolescent must endure?the physical and emotional challenges of puberty, the hazard-strewn search for self-discovery ?and any drug can mean danger to all but the most stable. Like alcohol, marijuana may not be risky for a secure adult, but to an anxious teen-ager it offers a seductive release from the hard reality of growing up. His judgment is unformed, and he may all too readily go on to harder drugs...