Search Details

Word: addicts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...summoned to a press conference by a group called the High Security Committee. There they were introduced to three Lebanese Muslims who had confessed, under duress, to working for the Israelis in a series of car-bomb incidents that had killed 30 people and injured 100. One, an admitted addict, said he did it for drugs; the others claimed that an Israeli officer said their families in southern Lebanon would be imprisoned if they did not cooperate. A few hours later, the three men were executed at the sites of the explosions. The body of one man was set afire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: A Fortress Under Heavy Fire | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...main character in this 90-minute futuristic flick is Flynn, the video addict's hero. He is not too good looking, and he's not terribly clever. But he plays a mean game of Space Paranoids, and his record score of 999,000 turns on plenty of women who hang around amusement arcades...

Author: By Jacob M. Schiesinger, | Title: Video Drivel | 7/13/1982 | See Source »

...Tobler Extra-Bitter sweet around the house. Hershey's Kisses mean more to me than Harry's (he's my hubby). Sometimes I even dream Harry has been dipped in milk chocolate. When I can't get chocolate, I sweat and shake. Am I an ADDICT? Is there anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ah, How Sweet It Is! | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...letter is fictitious. So is the answer, although Ann Landers is, in fact, a chocolate addict. So much so that the columnist to the lovelorn must banish her stash to the next room during working hours. ("I wouldn't dare keep a box at my elbow.") Confesses Landers abjectly: "I am hooked on chocolate. I crave it, and nothing else will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ah, How Sweet It Is! | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...performances. But it is another recording-a prostitute's taped confession implicating several powerful bad guys-that involves Jules in a maelstrom of thriller twists. Two eccentric allies help this Candide in Hitchcockland: a roller-skating shoplifter from Viet Nam (Thuy An Luu) and a puzzle addict who chain-smokes Gitanes and practices Zen (Richard Bohringer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flair Ball | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Previous | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | Next