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...likely that 10 per cent of Harvard drinkers will later become problem drinkers or alcoholics. We may never notice their addiction, because it may take years to develop. One of the pernicious things about alcohol addiction is the length of time it can take to overwhelm a person's life. Your roommate who occasionally gets "silly" on weekends may, in 20 years, be a violent, broken alcoholic...
...passel of busybody "friends." Body Language posits a scientific mishap that leads to a body swap between two women, an ascetic fitness fanatic over whom men drool and a hedonistic slob whom men mock and abuse. It could be a feminist diatribe, but Ayckbourn never lets dialectic overwhelm compassion...
...leaded-glass lamps displayed in "Masterworks" radiate a ragtime glow -- magnolias, maple leaves, dragonflies and cobwebs are set atop finely wrought bronze bases. Viewed together, however, they overwhelm a modern eye, a sort of kaleidoscopic overdose. Tiffany would perhaps have been embarrassed by such a showing of his lamps. He considered them rankly commercial and beneath his talents. They were, however, a convenient way to use up the several tons of glass chips and shards remaining from his monumental windows. At his 68th birthday party, where more than 160 examples of his art were displayed, Tiffany exhibited only one lamp...
...that I can shelter my boys for only so long. As they grow older, I will lose control of them, and they will eagerly sample the forbidden fruit. I hope that by then they will have internalized my values. But I fear that pop culture and peer pressure may overwhelm my influence. Look at how our culture spurred drug use among the young...
...Harvard cannot control Adelphi's offense, Adelphi might gain the sort of momentum that allowed it to overwhelm Harvard in the second half last year...