Word: addict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Welcome to the world of the Hobie Cat addict, that 100,000-strong armada of hopelessly smitten enthusiasts who insist that nothing in life quite measures up to the unrestrained joy of breezing along on a twin-hulled Hobie...
...blue antihistamine tablet available over the counter. They are stolen and sold to junkies for about $10 a pair, one-quarter the price of a hit of heroin. Mixed, dissolved and injected, they give a heroin-like rush-and quickly produce a heroin-like dependency. Says a drug addict in New Orleans, the nation's Ts and Blues capital: "Heroin is the past tense. This is the present...
...trust, at 69%, especially considering how schlocky many local news programs are. Then come newsmagazines at 66%, and newspapers at a mere 57%. Gallup took the poll for Newsweek right after the magazine's corporate sister, the Washington Post, got caught with Janet Cooke's phony dope-addict story. That timing may have skewed the public's attitude toward newspapers. Newspapers deserve better...
...relative impunity with which people take coke is encouraged by the fact that judges are notoriously reluctant to hand down heavy penalties for possession. Unlike the stereotyped scruffy ghetto addict who turns to mugging or burglary to support his habit, the cocaine user may have a three-piece suit and a well-lined wallet, and probably does his sniffing indoors without becoming unruly or threatening anybody. Says a Cook County, Ill., lawman: "These people are not the dregs of society. They tend to be legitimate business people." The Fourth District Appellate Court in Illinois last March ruled that cocaine...
...enforcement of editing standards was "urgently needed" was Michael J. O'Neill of the New York Daily News. O'Neill then had to get rid of one of his flashiest young columnists, Michael Daly. Like Janet Cooke of the Post, with her nonexistent eight-year-old dope addict, Daly lengthily quoted by name an English soldier in Belfast who turned out not to exist. The point should be well made by now: it may sometimes be necessary to use a fictitious name to protect an endangered source, but the source should be real and the right name known...