Word: addictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is no doubt about the natural superiority of pasta, there are several questions that haunt the addict who dreams of little else. What pasta shapes go best with which sauces? Is the rich meatiness of a beef-and-tomato sauce better appreciated when wound into the long, sturdy strands of bucatini or when filling the cavities of the convoluted lumache, or snail shell? Have any shapes become so unfashionable that they are being phased out? What will the newly increased U.S. tariff (from less than 1% of value to 40%) do to the price of imported pasta? And, finally...
Where the lights come into their own is on Fourth and Fifth avenues, not only the Christmas decorations but the shops shining from inside: Santiago Grocery, De An's House of Beauty. Billy, the drug addict with the gash on his cheek, skulks in and out of these lights like an actor on a stage. He pauses at various clusters of men his age, hangs out for a while, then moves along. Everywhere there are huddles of such men, standing together and apart at once, their bodies angled away from one another while they remain close. From a shop window...
...Genoa, Italy, police refused to touch a sickly young girl wandering aimlessly in a public park until they were provided with gloves. They feared that she was an AIDS victim. She turned out to be a drug addict...
...pathetic, yet typically wry, desperation of Woody Allen's THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Harvard Square, Sunday). Superficially, Mia Farrow sees her movie idol step off the screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...
Well, start with an all-American kid like Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, the ultra-conservative son in "Family Ties"). Surround him with a girl-next-door sweetheart, a caricature family and a mad doctor friend (Christopher Lloyd, who played Jim the drug addict in "Taxi") who has created a Time Machine. Sound familiar...