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...will review my thoughts just once more." A figure, Steig's version of The Thinker, sits slumped at the end of a labyrinth of drunkenly tilting stakes. His eyes stare out of focus in the general direction of his knees. His forehead wears its frown like a cross...
Part of the problem, says Institute Director Morris Chafetz, is that "America has been laughing at drunks. Yet studies show that countries where drunken behavior is socially acceptable have a lot of alcohol problems, while those that frown on drunks (for example, Israel, Italy and China) have the opposite experience." For this reason, the institute has just mounted an advertising campaign to promote moderate as opposed to excessive drinking. Warns one typical ad: "If you need a drink to be social, that's not social drinking...
...open a window." Considerably less conventional is the California couple who warm their van on cold nights with the body heat of their eight dogs, who snooze under the van's bed. Keeping clean is also difficult: Laundromats are convenient for washing clothes, but operators frown on clients who use the sudsy water to bathe themselves at the same time...
...bosses for years, blessing and blaming with small regard to the Communist Party line. And he has not changed. In one part of his Armstrong's Trumpet he says, "A poet and a great jazzman are equal brothers in what they give the world." Soviet leaders, who frown upon both jazz and angels, have made no comment...
...wife during a semiofficial visit last April. Together and separately, the two Kennedys observed only one rule-to be late, sometimes by one or two hours, for every engagement. "The honorable Senator," observed a columnist in the Frankfurter Allgemeinc Zeitung, all of his umlauts drawn into an angry frown, "came, saw, and did not conquer." The Kennedys are not the only public figures who could use a personal timekeeper; so could Senator Hubert Humphrey and Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger. Actress Marilyn Monroe was notorious for never showing up for any appointment on time. Similarly tardy was Poet Dylan Thomas...