Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...
Drew ended up in outpatient rehab. "They tell you you're a drug addict, and if you say you're not, you're in denial," he says. "If you say you only use it occasionally, they say you're rationalizing." Still, things improved. Some therapy sessions included Drew's mother. "There was complete honesty," he recalls. "It was the best our relationship has ever been...
...Bruce M. Haggerty '00, who describes himself as "a recovering addict," offers a warning...
...contend that only a crack addict has the right to discuss the problems of drug addiction. Obviously, we are all entitled to formulate opinions and test them in deliberation. We are all entitled to expect better from our world. My fault with the bulk of the "elite" is their total lack of humility...
Based on a 1994 series that won Dash the Pulitzer Prize, Rosa Lee is an unflinching portrait of underclass pathology in Washington's ghetto. The protagonist, Rosa Lee Cunningham, was a 57-year-old chronic welfare recipient, petty thief, drug addict and prostitute who died from aids earlier this year. Her worst failing may have been passing along her self-destructive traits to most of her offspring; she was even capable of recruiting one of her daughters into prostitution at age 11. Of her eight children by six different fathers, only two managed to escape to the mainstream world, through...