Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty much let his camera go nuts in the egregiously overrated Strictly Ballroom, here makes reasonable, imaginative decisions that are, arguably, true to Shakespeare. "His stories are full of sex, violence, tragedy, comedy because he was, first of all, a great entertainer," Luhrmann says. "His audience was 3,000 drunken, fighting people, bear baiters and prostitutes." Sounds like a Friday-night crowd at a big-city 'plex...
...lines did not go unremarked upon by early ecclesiastics trying to create systems of Scripture-based faith. St. Jerome, who translated the Word from Hebrew into Latin, grumbled that many of the narratives were "rude and repellent." A medieval rabbi, borrowing an image from the story of Noah's drunken disarray after the Flood (9: 21), suggested that "as dutiful children, let us cover the nakedness of our fathers in the cloak of favorable interpretation." Something of the sort eventually occurred. The Christian church developed a set of interpretations according to which the patriarchs prefigure Christians as heroes of faith...
...recent acquisition of a house on Mt. Auburn Street by the Sigma Chi fraternity raised the hackles of the Harvard community. Shouts of "The fraternities are coming!" echoed off the ivy-covered walls of this hallowed institution, and students cowered in fear of the imminent invasion of hordes of drunken frat boys. In fact, this school is so rabidly anti-fraternity that admitting you like them (or--gasp--belong to one) is almost akin to admitting to a loathsome disease...
...glad that the administration holds students' health above their actions. But we are not so sure that this policy conforms to the reality of medical treatment at UHS. Although students' records are supposed to be kept confidential, sometimes they are not. And though friends who accompany a drunken student to UHS should be lauded (especially under this policy), they are sometimes reprimanded. Moreover, UHS' policy to notify senior tutors about overnight stays at its facilities somewhat undermines its commitment to immunity and anonymity. UHS should notify students who do stay overnight that they are not required to inform their senior...
...gutsy Delvena Theatre Company's four-year investigation into the human love-organ. In the crammed seating of Leland Center, where the front-row audience members rest their legs on the worn Oriental rug that covers the entire set, there's no escaping the screaming, the whining and the drunken bodily noises that saturate the production. Heart-warming it is--for the most part...