Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...water that sprays from hose connections is usually little more than a nuisance at fires, but as a result of the nine-degree temperature the puddles quickly formed treacherous patches...
Smoking anything without inhaling. Cooking with pine nuts. Drinking espresso, even though it tastes awful. Drinking San Pelligrino water instead of Perrier, or Perrier instead of club soda. Joining an unworthy cause. Talking about Decon-structionism or unloading your artistic/thesis anxiety on any available listener. Calling yourself an artist. Going to Harvard...
...Nussbaum, Steinberg, 47, assumed such total control of her life that she could not eat or leave their Greenwich Village apartment without his permission. One night last November, she said, he ordered her and Lisa to eat hot pepper, forcing them to drink glass after glass of tap water. A bit later, while Nussbaum was in the bathroom, Steinberg came in bearing in his arms the bruised and unconscious girl. When Nussbaum asked what had happened, she testified, Steinberg replied, "What's the difference what happened? This is your child. Hasn't this gone far enough?" He then ordered...
...George Bush and Dan Quayle on the embassy wall. But that kind of comedy can only be born of the American people, and isn't the kind of thing that can be blamed either on Woody Allen or on the disappointing Dunster House performance of Don't Drink the Water...
...Drink the Water might be much funnier if it were presented as a character-based comedy, though such comedy requires a degree of character development that the Dunster House cast seems unable to deliver. Still, Don't Drink the Water does have a few acting highlights. Andrew Osborne makes a wonderful Sultan, though his stay on stage is unfortunately brief. Wesson obviously received extensive training at the George C. Scott Acting School to perfect his gruff portrayal of Ambassador Magee. And Suzanne Rose gives a diverting performance as the embassy chef, though her accent seems to waver somewhere between Italian...