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...jokes seem to go over the heads of much of the audience; instead of laughing, many spectators stare deadpan as if trying to catch up. Later sequences offer conventional, tell-me-a-story pleasures: a mother with a toothache tries to dispel it through elaborate religious ritual; a drunken father comes home and dies in a poignant scene made all the more impressive by the fact that moments before, the actor had stepped out of character to label his role unplayable...
Nobel Prize-winning economist John Kenneth Galbraith, speaking at a Winthrop House dinner commemorating Harvard's 350th anniversary, recalled his days as a tutor during here during the 1930s. Galbraith cited one wild party in Winthrop in which a drunken student dove three stories from his C-entry room and died. "There was great enjoyment of sex, alcohol and leisure," the former ambassador to India said with great candor...
...Safe Roads Bill comes after many years of combatting drunken drivers, said officials. Robbins said that state and local police have organized extra patrols and road blocks inorder to "get the drunk driver off the road beforehe kills someone." There was a 12 percent drop offatalities attributed to drunk drivers between1984 and '85, Robbins said...
...Society is saying we're sick of carnage on thehighways caused by drunken drivers, especially themultiple offenders," Robbins said. He said that ifapproved, the new bill will make it easier toconvict chronic offenders. "With the new bill,Massachusetts will become one of the tougheststates in the nation to drunken drivers," he said."What we're going after now is the hard-coremultiple offender...
...addition, under the new bill, a personconvicted of drunken driving would be required tohave at least a six-week alcohol treatmentprogram