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...vicious, obnoxious Begbie, whose friends tolerate him out with grudging and fearful respect. You indeed feel real fear that you might be tapping the seat in front of you too much and Begbie's there, ready to reel off a stream of incoherent expletives and then sink a broken beer bottle into your neck. Tearing up a hotel room, living uninvited at Renton's, fighting dirty in brawls--he perfectly embodies the worst of every violent, drunken rage...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: New Film: It's Square to Be Hip | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...empirical evidence says "yup." I'm 21, so I can buy beer, vote and can't go to juvenile hall. Hell, I can even get Zima. About a month ago, I went to a yuppie-ish cocktail party. The scary thing was, I had a good time...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Peter Pan Grows Up | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...high notes; others hated the song with a passion. "This Land Is Your Land?" We didn't know the words. "Take Me Out to the Ballgame?" No big baseball fans here. Finally, we narrowed the choice down to either the "Brady Bunch" theme or "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." We got down to 85 bottles and then gave into the demands of irate Europeans and Asians to shut...

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: What It Means to Be American | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...only 150,000 inhabitants, and life moves at a comfortable pace. Stores close at 2 p.m. for the three-hour lunch and siesta. Every night, old and young people alike trek to the barrio humedo (the bar-pub section of town) to talk, dance and quaff wine and beer (both of which are cheaper than Coca-Cola). There is no real need for cars to get anywhere; in any case, the people are friendly and will actually talk to you in the street. Leon is a city that is laid-back, sociable and always feliz--though hardly ever drunk...

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: What It Means to Be American | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...proverbial bowl of cherries without the pits if I had known about the following techniques. They represent my collective experience of one year lived, nine courses taken and passed, 14 episodes of "The X-Files" watched, 21 all-nighters pulled, 25 pounds gained, 52 weeks, 99 bottles of beer in the fridge, 233 cups of espresso, 365 days, 412 pizzas ordered, 8,759 parties and two dates...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Time Management 101 | 7/19/1996 | See Source »

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