Word: addictions
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Ezekiel has gone too far, however. He has struck and killed his brother with a poker. He is also a drug addict. The notion takes some getting used to: a 48-year-old professor of humanities on a methadone maintenance program in a prison where he is serving ten years for fratricide. That is just the beginning. There are Farragut's neighbors in cell block F, with names like Chicken No. 2, Bumpo, the Stone, the Cuckold, Ransome and Tennis, who on the outside was Lloyd Haversham Jr., two-time winner of the Spartanburg doubles. His crime...
Bergman arched the fatigue out of his shoulders and watched the street quickly clear of frozen extras and old cars. He never goes out during filming. He is a television addict who keeps logs on programs (his favorite is the latest Upstairs, Downstairs). "At the end of a shooting day," he says, "I'm often so tired you could put me into a black box. And yet, going home to my family seems a kind of intrusion. I have an urge to stay right here at the studio, sleep on a cot and stay with the project...
...effective a boycott could be is uncertain. The hardened coffee addict is no more likely to drink tea than an alcoholic is to develop a taste for orange soda. Coffee can thus withstand price rises that most other commodities cannot. Camillo Calazans, president of the Brazilian Coffee Institute, concedes that there is a limit to what people will pay for coffee. But he does not think a U.S. boycott will seriously cut into Brazil's coffee exports-or prices...
...most touching song is "Sam Stone," about a Vietnam vet who comes back a heroin addict. The gravel-voiced Prine is the man's child, singing: "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes," and the effect is chilling...
...participate in treatment programs like Gamblers Anonymous, but I was surprised that you chose not to discuss the huge number of compulsive gamblers like my father, who for some reason are unwilling or unable to seek help for themselves. Compulsive gambling is cruel and self-destructive, unless the addict makes a serious attempt to kick his habit...