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...midst of one of its periodic alcohol panics, this one focused on adolescents. In the late 1800s and again during the first decade of the 20th century, our alcohol panics focused first on what was called "frontier drinking" and then on drinking in slums. Pulp novels and newspapers carried lurid tales of violent drunkenness. Today news stories offer grim accounts of high school parties that end in gruesome wrecks and of college kids killing themselves by consuming, say, 100 shots in as many minutes. Last year the Surgeon General issued a "call to action" to prevent underage drinking; the National...
...Health for nearly 14 years, beginning in June 1986. It was important to her in conceiving the character Josh not to create a gay man who would be an extreme caricature. Josh drinks too much, but he isn't a bug-eyed crystal-meth addict because - despite many lurid news stories - very few gay men who have unsafe sex do so on crystal. Only 6% of at-risk gay men cited in a 2004 study that Chiasson coauthored for the journal AIDS Care had used crystal before or during...
...coolly shot out their headlights before going to work. What's missing from The Monster of Florence is the Monster: the killer was never caught. This isn't Preston's fault, but it hamstrings the book. The acme of the true-crime writer's art, what raises it above lurid rubbernecking, is making the psychology of a killer comprehensible, even sympathetic. In doing that, the true-crime writer gives meaning to the ultimate meaningless act: murder...
...prevent them from blowing the lid off his affair with fellow dentist Anita Durrani. According to the police, he was also incensed because Aarushi was "in an objectionable but not compromising position" with the 46-year-old Hemraj. The media lapped it up and went to town with lurid speculation, turning the case into a national sensation...
...discourse.” They sought, or seek, substantive change. The frustration with cruder attempts is that behind the lip service to “debate,” one senses that there is little of meaning or substance. Instead, these displays are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from the lurid tabloid spreads of Amy Winehouse’s personal decay or Britney’s tiresome new pregnancy. Where’s the line, exactly, between inducing repeated voluntary abortions and mindless stunts like “magician” David Blaine’s several-day stint trapped inside...