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Every so often, the awful absurdities of human behavior force themselves on us, defying all attempts at distanced rationalization. Saturday's Game was one of these times, as example of how surreal life can become when we ingest too much alcohol and succumb to the madness that goes by the name of school spirit...
WHEN I was in third grade at the New Lincoln School in Manhattan, a clever sex education teacher showed my class a movie on drugs. In the style of classics like Reefer Madness, the film showed how different drugs were produced, how people could ingest them, and their extremely nasty side effects. Heroin was fashionable at the time, so glistening hypodermics and needle-tracked arms were prominently featured, along with short biographies of celebrities who had died of overdoses. Although the effect of such films on children today has probably been greatly diffused by constant exposure to drugs...
...Mallory (Brearley, class of '65), we meet Bunny Warburton and Faye O'Jones as the three come together to celebrate their 10th high school reunion. In what has to be one of the most bizarre and yet completely believable rituals ever described in women's literature, the three chums ingest large quantities of marijuana, cocaine, acid and opium (Faye also spends a good deal of time sprinkling nutmeg into glasses of straight scotch because it's chic), dress in Brearley uniforms (short pleated tunic over granny collar shirt, gold studs optional) and present each other with detailed reports of their...
...have a machine (or hardware), they have to buy programs (or software) that will enable the computer to perform the desired functions. The programs, which are mainly recorded on vinyl discs about the size of a 45 r.p.m. record, are instructions written in a mathematical code the machine can ingest...
...Illinois toxicologist: "People hear caffeine, and they think of a cup of coffee. You get between 50 mg and 100 mg in a cup of coffee. The people we're seeing using these drugs are taking ten to 20 pills at once." In other words, they can ingest the caffeine of dozens of cups of coffee in one gulp. In the past two years, look-alikes have been implicated in the deaths of at least 14 people in New York, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, California and Illinois...