Word: addiction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tobler Extra-Bitter sweet around the house. Hershey's Kisses mean more to me than Harry's (he's my hubby). Sometimes I even dream Harry has been dipped in milk chocolate. When I can't get chocolate, I sweat and shake. Am I an ADDICT? Is there anything...
...letter is fictitious. So is the answer, although Ann Landers is, in fact, a chocolate addict. So much so that the columnist to the lovelorn must banish her stash to the next room during working hours. ("I wouldn't dare keep a box at my elbow.") Confesses Landers abjectly: "I am hooked on chocolate. I crave it, and nothing else will...
...performances. But it is another recording-a prostitute's taped confession implicating several powerful bad guys-that involves Jules in a maelstrom of thriller twists. Two eccentric allies help this Candide in Hitchcockland: a roller-skating shoplifter from Viet Nam (Thuy An Luu) and a puzzle addict who chain-smokes Gitanes and practices Zen (Richard Bohringer...
THIS SHOULD BE a depressing book: it certainly is not light humor, but irony keeps the plot humorous while Dunne's wonderful handling of colloquial dialogue makes even the most unsavory character somewhat likeable. One woman defends her husband, a heroine addict and convicted burglar...
...that compensates for its long discursive narrative. On Cummings' 13-minute appearance with Barbara Walters on the Today show: "I counted, because, with two other black writers, I'd been on her show for nine minutes." On the jailing of a black writer who is a drug addict: "Mailer almost did in his ole lady and got nothing but a slap on the wrist, and here Ike is, doin' it to himself. " On black college students at the affirmative-action gate: "I see them a few years down the line, having smacked the wall, backing away, murmuring...