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...Good Morning America” and last month drew an audience of more than 100 students when she spoke at Boston University. Her autobiography is not just for college kids, or even binge drinkers: it speaks to anyone who has ever experienced insecurity and sought out a crutch...
...crutch that seemed to help at first ended up preventing Zailckas from standing on her own two feet. Smashed is the lonely history of how alcohol tore her life apart, in ways that anyone who has unwittingly hurt themselves or others can begin to comprehend. “In the end,” Zailckas writes, “I quit drinking because I didn’t want to waste any more time picking up the pieces. I decided smashed, when it’s used as a synonym for drunk, is a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...Health Center in St. Louis, Mo., hired Ideo to help make over a nursing unit, Ideo staff members deployed a technique they call bodystorming. Taking on the roles of real patients, they acted out the entire physical experience of a stay in the unit, with one hand on a crutch and the other on a video camera. They also gave disposable cameras to DePaul's nurses and told them to take pictures of anything that impeded them during their duties. The result? Dozens of small fixes--such as a room for families, a phone for every nurse, and pictures...
Anybody who covers his beat for 20 years—and my beat is ‘The Death of the American Dream’—needs every goddamned crutch he can find
...Food? is no departure from form. The production (by Metal Face Doom himself on 12 of the 15 tracks here) is direct and sample-oriented. This is the anti-crunk: trebly, chill, metallic and hyperaware. Guest appearances, a frequent crutch employed by much of current hip-hop, are mostly absent; this guy has verses to spare anyway, why clutter the track with less-skilled...