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NICE KIDS, LIKE DOGS, CAN TURN NASTY IN A PACK Ever notice that your child acts like another, less responsible person around his friends? "The presence of the group, and kids' need for acceptance at any price, gives individuals 'permission' to drink more, act reckless, and show poor judgment," the authors write. "Most importantly, however, the presence of the group seems to diminish the sense of morality and individual responsibility that children possess." Another reason to pay close attention to which pack your kid runs with...
Finally, a nifty twist: a blackmailer (Goran Visnjic, the hottie from ER) falls in love with his victim (Tilda Swinton). Actually, the idea is so old it's new: this is a remake of Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment (1949). She's trying to protect her son from a predatory lover who is accidentally killed; he's an agent of evil too soulful for his own good. Their gripping story is told with sober conviction in this elegantly made, romantically doomy, curiously affecting movie...
...written a smaller, and more directly autobiographical book, "Opposable Thumbs" (Alternative Comics; 48 pg.; $4.95). The book reads like a collection of his best personal anecdotes, rather than a longer piece of self-examination. But Haspiel wins us over with his willingness to admit to all the stupid, reckless, violent events of his life in New York...
Margery Winters is a Connecticut resident who has turned over a new leaf. Winters, who works with groups trying to save Long Island Sound from pollutants often generated by fertilizers, recently loosened the reins on her two acres. In one section, she has let a reckless meadow flourish where grass once stood at attention. When a group of 600 garden-club members visited her property on a tour, it was not the well-tended flower beds but the meadow that generated the most excitement. "Many of the women just stood in the middle of it," she recalls. A visitor said...
...approach to reckless imbibing gaining currency among college administrators is unconventional and even counterintuitive. It argues for accepting that college-age kids are going to drink and for encouraging them to do so safely. Some campus officials recommend bowing to reality and lowering the drinking age, as 29 states did in the early '70s. By 1988, in response to the national mood against drunk driving and a threat by the Federal Government to cut off highway funding, every state had a minimum drinking...