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...immediate cause of death may have been her discovery that no one beyond the immediate family has accepted the invitation. Seems they're still ostracizing the groom's mother because of a brief marriage years before to an Italian waiter. Of course that lady is a drug addict who gets her fixes from the alcoholic family doctor...
...Jack Reardon aims to provide a program that will satisfy the athletic appetites of all types, from the intercollegiate addict to a once-a-week jogger. And as athletic director, Reardon, from Day One, has been grappling with the problem of providing enough room for all athletes to pursue their pleasures...
When Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, appointed his Morehouse College roommate, A. Reginald Eaves, as the city's first black public safety commissioner in 1974, white critics were quick to charge cronyism. Eaves, a lawyer, didn't make matters easier by hiring a drug addict as his secretary, ordering an $800 love seat for his office and a luxury car for his travels around the city. But Eaves also proved a highly effective and popular official, cutting violent personal crimes by 10% and drastically curbing cases of police brutality...
...admitted newspaper addict, I would like to paraphrase the great Will Rogers and say that I never met a newspaper I didn't like...
...confirmed a dream addict as any of the tosspots in The Iceman Cometh, Con Melody is unlike them in having a family around him-a low-born wife Nora (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who unfalteringly loves him, his mettlesome daughter Sara, who is increasingly roused to hate. Yet each inspires in him only a more desolating sense of aloneness. In the costly family game of lies and consequences, Con bears more than a few resemblances to O'Casey's Paycock...