Word: addicting
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...fragile thing. For example, it had been assumed for years that Henry Miller was unprintable but highly readable. Then Grove Press, merely by publishing his two Tropics, proved that Miller is unreadable but highly printable. A reading of Naked Lunch, the grotesque diary of Burroughs' years as an addict, suggests that no such drastic deflation will occur with him. For what it is worth. Burroughs will remain grand dragon of the YADs, by acclamation and by forfeit (he denies, of course, having anything in common with his beatnik vassals, but this is merely good form; no one ever admits...
...bareback rider. Where on earth went all of Pat's on-screen morality? "I have stepped out of the groove," he said. "In my first six movies I played myself. From now on I don't care if I play a derelict or a drug addict, just so long as the movie has a worthwhile message...
When it took over some abandoned German positions during World War II, the U.S. Signal Corps stumbled on a discovery that was destined to revolutionize the life and times of that hardy American hobbyist, the hi-fi addict. The signalmen found magnetic tape and equipment superior to any then developed in the U.S. What they wrought back home by their find was evident last week at the Chicago World's Fair of Music and Sound. Tape is the hottest thing in hi-fi today, and the tape industry is wooing the public this fall as it never has before...
...home, today's hi-fi addict can buy extra-thin tape capable of cramming eight hours of monaural sound onto one tape reel-all of Beethoven's nine symphonies plus his five piano concertos. For his car he can buy "magic memory" machines designed to fit over the transmission hump and record his dictation en route or music received on the car radio. There are devices on which six people can listen simultaneously to the 1812 Overture on six different earphones at six different volumes; there are "perpetual motion" tape machines that, once started, spew forth repetitious music...
Operation Kindness has 2,000 youngsters at work in San Francisco, 3,800 in Philadelphia. In Manhattan, a towering varsity end from the University of Pittsburgh has worked 16 hours a day to keep tough kids from becoming drug addicts and alcoholics. A volunteer for the Young Life Campaign, Bob Long, 21, can proudly look back on such experiences as the 14 nighs he spent helping one addict to kick the habit. "My man here stayed with me," says Long's grateful protege. "He's my 205-pound guardian angel...