Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hooking up with your best friend's girl-friend," begins a list of Edge Man activities beside the subscription order form. "Getting drunk on a Wednesday afternoon... Ditching work to watch the game with your buds. Playing beer pong 'till dawn." This isn't a to-do list--it's a fantasy. Inside Edge writers will play out their fantasies in magazine copy, but not in real life. They'll throw away a question or two, but they'll never blow their...
...best and the brightest," as Perspective so arrogantly puts it, are susceptible to the same peer pressures as everyone else. Most kids who buy Inside Edge are probably just as insecure, and just as innocuous, as the kids who write it. A real-life Edge Man would be too drunk to read...
Most embarrassing moment: Passing out in front of the residential scholar's bedroom at a reception in the afternoon. We had drunk a lot, and they were not impressed...
...pushed to study hard in order to gain acceptance at a top university, preferably the University of Tokyo. Then he starts toiling for a corporation or in a government bureaucracy. The hours are endless, and when they are over, he is often expected to go out and get drunk with clients. Weekends are for golf, again usually with clients. Back home, his wife takes full charge of the children and manages the money. This lockstep life is a foundation of Japan's economic supremacy, which is just beginning to show cracks...
...novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp case, will remain Drunk & Useless...