Word: addicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James LeBlanc, 32 and white, has been a heroin addict for ten years, dur ing which he has thrice been convicted of larceny. Each time he robbed, he says, it was to buy a fix. Now he is in New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center where, seven days a week, he takes an orange drink laced with gradually increasing doses of methadone...
...with a permanent lopsided slouch, his left shoulder 1 in. higher than his right. He peers out at the world through one clear contact lens and one that is blue-tinted; he is simply too lazy to replace the other half of either pair. He is a Pepsi-Cola addict, but insists that he has kicked the habit: he drinks only ten 16-oz. bottles a day now instead of 15. He likes to read about J. Paul Getty, because he is so rich, and his hero is Frank Sinatra, "because he doesn't give a damn about anything...
...literary friends, including Henry James and Joseph Conrad. His brother had to pay to have his body brought home to New Jersey for burial. It was the sort of end most people had predicted for a man who gleefully promoted the false rumor that he was an opium addict, and who married the madam of a Jacksonville sporting house, or at least lived with her. Lionized. In the 68 years since Crane's death, two biographies, a thinly disguised biographical novel, and scores of literary essays have tried to grasp the causes of his failure. This massive, prolix biography...
...Intrigued, Garrison began reading everything he could find on the presidential assassination, including all 26 volumes of the documents and reports that had been sifted by the commission. His thinking on everything changed. Others had reached similar conclusions, but Garrison was different. He was the first conspiracy addict with the power to do more than talk...
...Angeles, policemen going on duty must pause for a reading of schoolchildren's essays on the glories of the L.A.P.D. Red tape envelops every police department, but few can compete with New York's for sheer bulk. A New York cop who arrests a teen-age drug addict must fill out well over 100 forms?enough to make any but the most conscientious think twice before stopping a suspect. And the cop on the beat still uses the same weapons he did 100 years ago?the billy club and the gun?and often wields them with Dickensian abandon...