Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what makes him laugh. "I like humor that's not really funny," he says. "I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about." He accepts a sketch about a hate group (the wrinkle: the group hates its leader too). He rejects a documentary parody called Scared Straight in which gay men scare kids "straight...
...hours, Rock hangs out with a core group of comics--Seinfeld, Joyner, SNL's Colin Quinn, a few others. "It's sort of the same reason cops and prostitutes like to hang out together," explains Seinfeld. "No one else understands them." It's a group that meets for nonprofessional reasons, but the camaraderie often sparks humorous ideas. Nevertheless, Rock declines to share jokes in progress even with his friends or his wife, doing his writing in private. The onetime high school misfit still has trouble fitting in. "I really can't trust anybody," Rock says. "Even the people who love...
...Everything is an occasion to drink--happy or sad. We just drink for any reason." That's what I heard on campus last week when I asked a group of college upperclassmen to comment on a full-page newspaper ad signed by 113 college presidents. The ad features a huge bottle of "Binge Beer" and warns parents that binge drinking on campus has reached dangerous proportions. The awareness campaign, spearheaded by Graham Spanier, president of Penn State, is backed up by a study of binge drinking released by Harvard's School of Public Health, in which 43% of college students...
...group of 18 students I spoke with at a small liberal-arts college near my home, five said they had been hospitalized at one time with alcohol overdoses. Two had been involved in separate incidents on campus over the previous weekend in which students they were with overdosed and were treated by paramedics. The students also told me that while they take complete responsibility for their actions, however stupid, the atmosphere on campuses is very beer-friendly. Anyone can get a keg, they say, or find someone of legal age who will. The local bars card them, "but that...
...your teen something sophisticated to go with dinner, try offering an extra portion of you. A different survey of 2,000 teenagers released last week shows a direct relationship between teen substance abuse and the lack of close familial connections--especially between children and their fathers. I asked my group of college students what they thought society could do for them--more ad campaigns, safer campuses, a lower drinking age? To a person, they said the real education should happen at home, starting well before they are teenagers, maybe as young as age seven. ("By the time...