Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last and hardly least, the But-the-Good-Times-Were-Not-Meant- to-Last genre relies on stars' generous willingness to drink, go bankrupt and have their houses burned down in order to create hypnotic TV. Behind the Music delivers on the credits' promise of "Fame...Passion... Heartbreak...Success...Glory" with an Aristotelian three-act structure--rise, fall and rehab--and florid narration: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "came out of the South--driven by jangling guitars and led by a rock-'n'-roll rebel!" E!'s True Hollywood Story is tart and eager to dish dirt. Compare an Intimate...
...with brute over-stimulation, my best attempts to block my mind from those troublesome paths of reflection down which it itches to run, I say, despite all this, I find myself huddled at the end of the day in a corner of a remote coffeeshop, collecting realizations amidst cold drink's condensation and hot day's perspiration, scratching myself for a small day's big ideas...
...Expulsions] happen every year and the students know if they drink this will happen," Clancy says...
...detector test. In the end, the authorities had strong feelings Barton was guilty, but there were no witnesses to place him at the campground, no fingerprints and only inconclusive forensic evidence. Before they could retest the blood traces in his car, Barton claimed to have spilled a soft drink on them, destroying the evidence...
According to police reports at the time of the incident, however, the first-year student, Scott Krueger, was forced to drink vast quantities of alcohol at a Phi Gamma Delta party. He fell into a coma at the fraternity, and three days, later, passed away...