Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such moments Self sounds the novel's underlying theme: a culture geared to profit from the immediate gratification of egos and nerve endings is not a culture at all, but an addiction. As an addict, he discovers that bad habits and ignorance are the bars of self-imprisonment. "Look at my private culture," he cries. "It really isn't very nice in here. And that is why I long to burst out of the world of money and into--into what? Into the world of thought and fascination. How do I get there? Tell me, please. I'll never make...
...wife." The First Lady delivers speeches more often and more effectively, and recently engaged an outside writer to provide her with new, improved material. She has plunged into unfamiliar territory, sitting on Mr. T's lap at a White House Christmas celebration, opening her arms to a young addict at a California drug rehabilitation clinic and, in Peking last spring, responding gracefully when Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping suggested to her that "next time" she "come alone." A few weeks ago she agreed to spend time with drug-addicted inmates at a jail in the heartland. But the new gusto goes...
...have been there otherwise--under the tree for kids like 3-year-old Susan whose father dead in September and lost all her toys when her welfare mother's apartment burned up last month, and orphan Mary Jo, whose father deserted her when she was born and whose drug addict mother left four years...
...into a bed covered with Laura's pictures. An amateur philosopher, Leonad pontificates. "Look, sex has nothing to do with love: you can wash off sex," but Charles asks only to take Laura's picture with her clothes on, Leonard gets Charles a hooker, and the high school photo addict asks only...
Stage-managing the zoo-parade is a strung-out addict named Dopey (Gary Sinise), who looks and acts like a guerrilla refugee from the Twilight Zone. Sinise is one of the founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman...