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...pressure to drink began to wear me down during sophomore year. I started picking up a beer at parties and even figuring out how to operate the tap on the keg after a while. Yet I remained torn. That November, the night after The Game, I walked down Mt. Auburn Street shaking my head at the beer-induced chaos around me--the vomit on the street, the police cars everywhere, the bodies collapsing onto one another as they fell out of the final clubs. I was still reluctant to be a part of that scene...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: On the Drinking Question | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

...heraldic theme music, the swooping graphics and the story meetings ("Get me a show, people. Anything but same-sex marriage"). By keeping the pol-vs.-pol scenes brief, Markus has made the show specific enough to Nightline to satirize the genre but general enough to life to tap the comic angst of the human condition. Watch, and you'll see one from each of the major office types: the tightly coiled executive producer (played by Miguel Ferrer of Twin Peaks), who humors Freundlich with drunken promises of future anchordom written on a cocktail napkin; the booker (Sanaa Lathan), who reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: News Nuns and Media Monks | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Retreating to his garage, he cut a block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he carried it around for months, pretending it was a computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday? Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he were checking his schedule. If he needed a phone number, he would pretend to look it up on the wood. Occasionally he would try out different design faces with various button configurations, using paper printouts glued to the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palm-To-Palm Combat | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...this is one of the best aspects of Clark's--unlike many other bars, it can be a venue for either conversation or people-watching. If neither of these activities suits you, the numerous TV screens offer silent entertainment; for those stuck watching TV, the variety of beers on tap should soothe the pain. The only reason not to pay Clark's a visit would be an aversion to either train stations or ABBA...

Author: By Inie Park, | Title: A Better Glass of Beer | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...attire at Mr. Dooley's consists of an even distribution of leather jackets, windbreakers and well-tailored suits. A crowd with a wide age-range is brought together by the promise of good music and, as advertised, 13 imported beers on tap...

Author: By Inie Park, | Title: A Better Glass of Beer | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

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