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...smoking the little pink speed tablets off sheets of tinfoil stripped from Krong Tip cigarette packets. Now, as the flushes of artificial energy recede and the realization surfaces that there's no more money anywhere in this hut, Jacky is crashing hard and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates that sponging little punk for all of the tablets he smoked a few hours ago?tablets she could be smoking right now. Back then, she had a dozen tablets packed into a plastic soda straw stuffed down her black, wire-frame bra. The hut was alive with...
...When the yaba runs out after half the slum's population has been up for two days bingeing, most of the inhabitants feel a bit like Jacky, cooped up in her squalid little hut, her mouth turned up into a vicious little scowl and her eyes squinted and empty and mean. She looks like she wants something. And if she thinks you have what she wants, then look out. She slices at her cuticles with the straight razor. And curses Bing...
...then Bing comes around the corner between two shanties and down the narrow dirt path to Jacky's hut. He stands looking lost and confused, as usual. Jacky pretends he's not there. She sighs, looking at her nails, and stage whispers to me that she hates...
...dollars are adjusted for inflation, he was the third biggest box-office draw in motion-picture history. He was also a dominant (perhaps the dominant) radio personality from the mid-'30s to the mid-'50s. Despite these accomplishments, almost no one (including TIME) gave Bing more than passing mention when all those "100 best of the century" lists were being cranked out--which proved to me that most of the people who cooked up the lists were too young for the job. ROBERT H. HANDY Waverly, Ohio...
...lifelong Bing Crosby fan, I found your review of Gary Giddins' new biography [BOOKS, Feb. 5] quite satisfying. Your critic says justice has been done to Bing at last. It's about time. Crosby was arguably this country's greatest all-around entertainer. He was certainly the most versatile...