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...list your favorite TV show. (Putting "Temptation Island" or C-Span "The Week in Politics" would not be advisable.) And number 24, "Are you a vegetarian or do you eat meat?" is deceptively polite. This is not because they wish to order you a special meal on your flight to the exotic locale. It's because vegetarians make the best face of disgust when asked to consume a crunchy...
...brutal truth is that the Oscar is a glittering prize that supplies succor and nourishment all the way to Monday morning. And then it's back to "What have you done lately?" Of course the tag is with you forever but no one in this short-attention-span town remembers your résumé. They remember that you gave great "headers." "Headers" are the snappy soundbites by which you cement your relationships (I use the word loosely) in a crowded party...
...team went out on a high note. The Crimson was dominant in defeat against the Big Red. Except for a span of 2:37 when Cornell shocked even itself by scoring three goals, Harvard controlled play up and down the ice. It just couldn't catch a break...
...ended, appropriately, with the concept carried to its logical extreme, a Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson film called "Head" that was essentially about the destruction of the group. The Monkeees were not a Woodstock kind of band, and most definitely not a post-Altamont proposition. But for a brief span, they were a bona fide phenomenon, a brilliant, opportunistic creation that somehow also managed to encapsulate the giddy, innocent sincerity...
...like caffeine, tobacco, alcohol and even sugar. Referring to what he calls the "psychoactive revolution," Courtwright examines how and why certain drugs came to be so readily available and popular, while others seemed to fizzle at their unnoticed beginnings. Forces of Habit is a solid, well-written and comprehensive span of the history of drugs that pulls information in from all aspects from trade to consumption...