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...Salkian spirit of self-experimentation, I have long applied this technique to my addictions. The first time, admittedly, the experiment was unintentional. In college I was a big coffee drinker. Working on the McGill Daily, I once stayed up all night writing and rewriting editorials (one habit of which I later purged myself with great ease), drinking cup after cup of coffee along the way. By dawn I had consumed at least a dozen and was sick as a dog. That was 25 years ago. I have not touched a cup since...
...exhibit, not all of the women are garish creatures. Toulouse-Lautrec's Absinthe Drinker may be a prostitute, but she possesses a maternal modesty conveyed by her relaxed posture, unassuming clothes and coloring in tonal browns. She's not a redhead, as are many of Toulouse-Lautrec's women, nor does she look embalmed and fluorescent as the harsh lighting of the Moulin Rouge was apt to render its drunk habituees. Absinthe Drinker is a refreshing contrast to Toulouse-Lautrec's unflattering portraits. But here again, the work is not psychologically revealing, because the woman is shown in profile...
...sits on the top of the ice and the beer runs down the track into the drinker's mouth at the bottom...
...drinking age is set above the age at which one can vote: People are generally more responsible at age 21 than age 18. It's unlikely that a single vote will inflict severe harm on the voter or anyone else, but the potential hazards to an underage drinker and the members of the surrounding community are well documented. And if the legal drinking age ever reached 18, it could very well drop even lower soon after...
That storyteller must also have understood that even though Schindler, a hypnotically ambiguous character -- he was a drinker, womanizer, black marketeer and con artist -- was operating in a charnel house, he was finally that classically empathetic, inspirational figure, the lone individual doing good in a desperately dangerous context. If you could get an audience to accept that context, you could involve them with a man who, though antiheroic in some of his behavior, was in his essence a movie hero of quite a familiar, beloved kind...