Word: addict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following Stevie around, one almost forgets his blindness. He spends hours watching television, going to the movies or shopping for clothes. During all of these moments, he has a companion to narrate the action or describe the lapels. He is a telephone addict, and his phone directory is a cassette on which he narrates to himself all the numbers that he regularly dials. If he could acquire sight, he is regularly asked, what would he want to see? And he regularly replies: The world, the earth, the birds, the grass and the people he loves. "But there...
...although Matthews might better have said a horror of sex, since, as the book points out in another connection, there were perhaps more women than men among the very few people with whom Eliot had close friendships. No, his sickly and neurotic first wife Vivienne was not a drug addict, although she was more or less constantly on medication...
...ambiguous present too, and hidden in the shadows, he took his small pleasures, a little worried about becoming addicted to them, but already realizing he was an addict to something else. He stayed confused by all his talented classmates, happy to be a statistic in the dialectic, not quite sure what it meant, satisfied to be part of it: it sounded progressive...
...cover for our inactivity. The press uses heroism to mean sensationalism, grandstanding. Real heroism lies in the courage of everyday life which some people find to rebuild this world despite the obstacles. Though no paper covered it, the heroism in the woman's response to the addict is the only cure to the fear in the younger girl's face...
...clear from the beginning that Shaw was innocent. Garrison's star witnesses were a heroin addict who claimed he saw Shaw and Oswald together once when he was shooting up at the lakefront; a businessman who remembered the details of conversations with Shaw after Garrison's staff hypnotized him; and an accountant who fingerprinted his children every morning to make sure the CIA hadn't stolen them during the night and substituted lookalikes to spy on him. The national and local press gave the trial heavy coverage. Garrison lost and came out looking like a fool...