Another time, someone sent her an instant message, "something hilarious, and the coffee I was drinking shot out of my nose".
A Pentagon study published in January found that binge drinking shot up a whopping 30% between 2002 and 2005 among active-duty soldiers, while drug use almost doubled between 1998 and 2005.
References to "binge drinking" shot up in 2004, according to Dr James Nicholls of Bath Spa University, who researches the social history of alcohol.
Mr. von Trier gave up drinking after shooting "Melancholia" and has taken up what he called the "very bourgeois" pursuit of reading and is working his way through Proust.
Virtually all of the young men drinking beer, shooting the breeze and killing an afternoon in Ms. Smith's play can be viewed in lights both positive and negative, which is a credit to the playwright's appreciation of the complicated mixture of honorable and dishonorable impulses in all of us.
"People drinking, smoking, shooting up—and in front of kids.
Paul Williams, who sang the lines, "depressed and downhearted I took to cloud nine", fell ill, took to drinking and shot himself in a Detroit parking lot in 1973.
They hang out in train yards drinking wine and shooting craps, and at the basketball courts.
A group of men stand around drinking cans, talking, shooting the shit.
Eventually they end up in the Sonoran Desert in a house together, sitting on the deck mainly, drinking and shooting that unmistakable DeLillo breeze.
