Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fail to see the logic in why the person writing the editorial thinks it is a waste of time for the police to enforce the law. It is illegal for anyone undex 21 to purchase or attempt to purchase alcohol. It is also illegal for anyone of age to buy for someone underage...
...illegal to purchase or attempt to purchase alcohol if you are under 21. Period. What makes any Harvard students think they are above the law? Because society says that alcohol is a right of passage? Because people are dying on the road at the hands of drunk drivers and Harvard students do not drive after walking back from a package store? Because package stores are the only ones who break the law? I think...
...making some confessional statement with the film. Manifestly autobiographical segments, including an amusing sendup of Mia Farrow's allegations of Allen's misconduct with their child, support this interpretation. But Allen complicates things by introducing drastic contradictory elements--his character's interest in fetishist prostitutes, drug and alcohol addiction, and painfully inarticulate vulgarity seem intended to confound the audience. According to this analysis, the film reads as a kind of failed art maneuver--failed because Deconstructing Harry is not funny or moving or sad or engaging or heartwarming or heartbreaking--and we were already confused about Allen's relationship...
When an underage college student makes it his part-time job to secure and drink alcohol it can indeed jeopardize public safety. It can end independent businesses. It can result in a clerk's inability to buy groceries for his family. It can and has resulted in young lives ended all too soon...
...assailant reportedly had "a strong odor of alcohol on his person...