Word: addicting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...although Paul McCartney, U2, Madonna and other rock royalty are signed up, few black performers and only one African will appear. At the press conference, one participant pronounced himself content, however. Elton John says that at the original gig in 1985, "I was pretty much a self-obsessed drug addict." At least that's one monster slain...
...fortysomething closet video-game addict, I'm not at all surprised by the features of the new Xbox. I'm no raging conservative moralist, but I am worried by the incredible darkness in the gaming world. Most current game designs (besides those of sports and auto-racing titles) are oppressively heavy and angst ridden. There is ceaseless marketing to the basest instincts of the 18-year-old-male psyche. I am concerned that my 10-year-old son is growing up in a world in which even previously lighthearted games now include blood splattering and bad language. Perhaps bringing...
...Ragtime,” because Walker is a “guy who got pushed too far and went a little bit crazy.” When asked what role he’s proudest of playing, Rock replies that it was drug addict Pookie in the 1991 drama, “New Jack City...
...Farkes is a baseball addict, and for guys like him, the worst kind of pain isn’t playing hurt...
...wonderful future tomorrow full of monumental achievements!...Everyone will be tuned into everything that's happening all the time! No one will be left out. We will all be normal!" Crumb's family was anything but normal. His father was a "sadistic bully," his mother an amphetamine addict. In 1962, aged 18, their talented, self-taught son was taken on by a greetings-card company. Five years later he left his steady job to join the hippies in San Francisco. But he was too embarrassed to sport velvet and ringlets, and never felt like he belonged. O.K., he took drugs...