Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current form. Clinton said that the bill "might be called the 'Drunk Drivers Protection Act'" because it would cap damages in civil cases, including the amount paid by drunk drivers and others, and he urged the Senate to remove what he called "undeserved protection" for offenders such as drunken drivers, child abusers and terrorists...
Illusion, of course, is art's essence. But by the time he gets halfway through his new novel, Amis is providing mostly distraction. The comedy becomes shtiky, with a few exceptions--like the drunken theater critic who nearly completes the first word of his review before falling unconscious onto his keyboard. The word is "Chehko." But the setups grow progressively slacker, and Amis relies too heavily on old tricks: low comedy courtesy of London's petty-criminal class, Postmodern interjections from the author, and profundity cast as scientific metaphors. By now the literary uses of entropy are threadbare even...
...other side there's the pro-Harvard group, arguing that Grant is a manipulative, and probably evil, honors student who brutally murdered her drunken mother in an argument over her boyfriend. Gina first tried to avoid arrest through clumsy lies, but when this failed, she used Alan Dershowitz's "Abuse Excuse" to sail her way through the juvenile justice system. When it came time to applying to Harvard, she lied about the killing and tried to capitalize on her status as an orphan...
...latest Stephen King best seller to hit the big screen features Kathy Bates as a coarse-tongued yet endearing heroine who supports herself by caring for a rich invalid (Judy Parfitt) while mourning her estrangement from her deeply disturbed daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The villain is Dolores' husband, a drunken wife beater (David Strathairn) who deserves the bad end she arranges for him in a tale complicated by its vagueness. "King boldly uses the most primitive and melodramatic forms to explore very basic emotional issues," says TIME critic Richard Schickel. "This is his fantasia on feminist themes...
...movie's biggest problem aside from a weak screen play is the conflict between its message and its means. Chicken wire over the windows tells us that barroom brawls are a common problem, but Tamahori confuses the issue by alternating uplifting fights of just vengeance with drunken displays of uncontrolled power...