Word: drunkenness
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...turns on her classic Lucille Ball face – big eyes, cheeks streaked with mascara, frizzy red hair nested on her head. The same face begins to reappear after a few rounds of flaming shots at her sister’s bachelorette party, a night leading to a drunken encounter involving an ATM machine and a tryst in a boat. Messing succeeds as a comedienne faced with the absurdity of a full-time male escort. But sadly, she fails in her portrayal of a serious woman being seduced...
...puts away in his thrice-weekly sessions, which start at a pub around 9 p.m. and end at a club five or six hours later. "We definitely drink more" in Britain, he says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber on a stretcher whom the Kevlar-clad ambulance crew wheels straight to a treatment room; a youth whose injuries - a lacerated hand...
...fictional characters are delinquents and outcasts, and her nonfiction characters, mostly her friends, family and herself, aren't much better. And yet Saibara's intimacy with the characters allows readers to laugh with the unsympathetic lot, not at them. "I grew up watching women get beat up by their drunken husbands, raising kids fathered by different men, never smiling a day in their lives," says Saibara, 40, whose father died of alcoholism...
...film, I say that death is better than life, because we are forced to live with this constant, permanent destruction." Born in Baneh, in Iranian Kurdistan, and now living in Tehran, Ghobadi has always made films that cut deep. His first feature, 2000's A Time for Drunken Horses, follows a young Kurdish boy who smuggles goods across the border between Iran and Iraq to feed his four siblings. He was back two years later with Marooned in Iraq, about two brothers who follow their father on a journey from Iran to Iraq to help a woman they haven...
OLYMPICS A record 24 Olympians were caught using drugs during the Games. Michael Phelps won eight medals, then got arrested for drunken driving back home...