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This year during spring break, I brought four roommates back to my drinking milieu, this time represented by Montreal. In no nearby city can one have a good time more easily or for less money. In clubs, bars and cafes we drank with the abandon of those who know that most of the other American patrons are first-year barely pushing 18. We were much more legal than they were...
...upon returning home to California, Louganis, as divers say, "lost the water." Disoriented and depressed, he drank, dabbled in drugs and even attempted suicide. He left the hard-nosed Lee for the gentler O'Brien, who somehow kept Louganis focused through all the fallow non-Olympic years that stretched between Montreal and Los Angeles. (The U.S. boycotted the 1980 Games.) In 1984 Louganis won both the springboard and platform competitions. "That was the peak," says O'Brien...
...study found that men who had diets low in methionine and folic acid and at the same time had an average of two drinks a day or more were at a greater risk for colon cancer than those who had a diet high in nutrients and who drank alcohol at more moderate levels...
...They sat around, drank coffee, and had some good conversations," she said. "It didn't cause any real problems...
...Romantic movement in French painting, Delacroix was both fervid and exceptionally contained. He adored energy -- the fury of stallions rearing and biting one another in a stable, ignoring the efforts of their Arab grooms; the flash in a fighter's eye; the tensed muscles of a lion. He drank color: sonorous reds and browns, flashes of green, veils of cold blue -- a palette he had learned from Rubens. But at the same time he knew, as his idols Rubens and Titian had known, that all the passion in the world is aesthetically useless unless it has the container of form...