Word: addict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent to convent school by her parents after they divorced. She was in her teens when, in 1964, she dropped plans to attend Cambridge University and hit the pop scene. Six years later, she had left Mick Jagger and developed a heavy habit. "I was a registered heroin addict," she says. "I lived on the streets for two years." She went through periods when she managed to reclaim herself, others when she just gave up. Two marriages shattered. Sometimes she would make an album or try a tour. Sometimes she beat her habit, and sometimes it beat her. Finally, after...
...celebrate their radically new "at least he wasn't an addict" philosophy, the Reagans hosted a pot party at the White House. They greeted the press in tie-dyed shirts and peace-sign necklaces...
...sight of President Reagan defending Ginsburg's previous indulgences as making him something less than "an addict" and no less qualified to sit on the Supreme Court is no small cause for glee among those long ago deadened to the hypocrisy of the Reagan Administration and its leader. This is an Administration whose Justice Department has had a long-standing policy against hiring in any law-enforcement capacity anyone who admits on their job application to ever having tried pot. Which perhaps explains why when the ambitious Ginsburg was asked the $64,000 question when filling out application forms...
...taste you don't want to acquire," consoled my mother, who wasn't too anxious to have her daughter become a caffeine addict at the tender age of 13. Now, at 19, I make no pretenses; coffee has become an essential part of my life...
...unlike Tunnel of Love, Reed's album was no masterpiece, except insofar as it represented a turning point for him artistically, from heroin addict to happy husband. (Go figure). But to its credit, Legendary Hearts was way ahead of its time, before the New Romance of late. Perhaps that's why it didn't sell well while Springsteen's album is destined for multi-platinum. One of the primary differences between Reed and Springsteen--besides everything--is the former's ability to be unfashionably early while Bruce is always perfectly punctual. Reed may have his finger on the trigger...