Re: Adventures in Time and Space

On Wed, 31 May 2006 17:30:21 +0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James
Nicoll) wrote:

In article <g7jr72pd8uonk9eccm87ovic4u35mvfp4g@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@xxxxxxx> wrote:

sophistication. And throughout the whole period from 1920 to 1965,
there's not much evidence of any sense of moderation -- people drink
to get drunk, and often continue until they pass out.

A late example (possibly to the Funny Drunk as the Long Riders
was to Westerns) is 1981's ARTHUR, whose moral is that a self-pitying
drunk _can_ get the girl, as long as he is splendidly rich as well.

Yeah, I thought that movie was something of a throwback at the time,
and was surprised it did as well as it did.

I wonder, was Candy Lightner [1] cause or effect? Did she
and MADD change society's views in the 1980s or did she simply found
MADD at a point in time when society would have headed in that direction
anyway?

I think she just came along at the right time. We've had
prohibitionists all along, it's just that usually they're ignored.




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