Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who are fed up with binge drinking, the experts offer this advice: don't get even, get mad. "They must speak up for their rights," says Henry Wechsler, a public health expert who led the Harvard study. "If your roommate gets drunk every night, you demand either a new roommate or that you be moved." Wechsler is quick to point out that he doesn't want to get rid of drinking, just drunkenness. With up to 85% of college students imbibing at least some of the time, total prohibition is not practical, he says, but colleges can insist...
...wonder Radcliffe herself hasn't yet filed for divorce, considering her oft-repeated claims of spousal abuse. "Harvard harassed me," she said. "He got me drunk and raped me," she cried. A divorce in this one rare case, therefore, would be in the best interest of both parties. And if it's any consolation, Radcliffe can keep the children--Deans Epps and Jewett...
...Bingeing is the benchmark after which drinking lapses into a drinking lifestyle--drinking to get drunk and dangerous activity," Weschler said...
...that her part is so small because she portrayed it with a catatonic stare and high pitched, mousy voice. Her entrance and exit create an expectation for weirdness that is not adequately fulfilled. Although one of the characters (played by Sami Shumays who does a convincing job as a drunk) has a leg amputated, the bizarreness of the characters' personze is not fully exploited. They are too relaxed for people who could at any moment perish...
...possesses a maternal modesty conveyed by her relaxed posture, unassuming clothes and coloring in tonal browns. She's not a redhead, as are many of Toulouse-Lautrec's women, nor does she look embalmed and fluorescent as the harsh lighting of the Moulin Rouge was apt to render its drunk habituees. Absinthe Drinker is a refreshing contrast to Toulouse-Lautrec's unflattering portraits. But here again, the work is not psychologically revealing, because the woman is shown in profile...