This type of problem always narrows to an unavoidable point.
(There's also the unavoidable point that, if one is a professional football quarterback like Vick is, then a "better passing game" is a chief way for one who earns his money by passing a football, like Vick does, to bolster his monetary and moral self-worth).
Both films conjure up the handful of movies that have become iconic for addiction -- Days of Wine and Roses, The Lost Weekend, Postcards from the Edge and Leaving Los Vegas -- as well as providing a new humanity for today's drinkers and drug- abusers and a fresh approach to the unavoidable plot points -- hitting bottom, tearful confrontations, admitting there's a problem and falling off the wagon.
QUESTION FROM LENNY: How long do we have before an unavoidable tipping point?
More than forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde.
The unavoidable starting point must be to accept two related facts: that Gordon Brown will (barring some unforeseen cataclysm) be the party's leader on election day and that whatever his private promises he will not change a jot.
And, while Parker was the unavoidable selling point of his movie, in which he cast himself as the hero, Affleck is part of an expertly calibrated ensemble; he plays a jerky, damaged, socially stunted loser.
It was one of those days when the absence of Kevin Pietersen, the man of the tournament when Paul Collingwood's team won England's first major limited-overs trophy in the Caribbean in 2010, loomed large as an unavoidable talking point – as will be the case in all England defeats, especially those in which the batting flops, for as long as the current impasse remains.
The killing, though hardly the first or the last of its kind, remains an unavoidable reference point in any national conversation about racism in Britain.
In the nearby Lempa River Basin, social capital was regarded by (Bankoff et al. 2013: 82) as a major factor in "reducing vulnerability and an unavoidable starting point for risk reduction".
