Word: craps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what truly keeps Goldman are the Heroes, people who transcend the crap, who can still impress and awe him the way Tarzan Finds a Son did when he was the only kid Highland Park, Illinois crazy enough to see the same movie twice. For various reasons, among his heroes are Oliver, Robert Wagner, Bob Woodward, Richard Attenborough, but most of all, Paul Newman...
Addiction and heroin have seemed almost exclusively coupled. Indeed, heroin's withdrawal pangs are physically terrible. Cocaine's are not. But according to people who have been dependent on both drugs, kicking cocaine can be tougher. "When they say it's not addictive, that's crap," insists Investment Banker Donald, who is struggling to beat his cocaine habit. "Just talking about it makes my sinuses clog up and my nose twitch." At Dr. Siegel's Los Angeles therapy sessions, deprived cocaine users, he says, sometimes "start crying for it, and get doubled over on the floor. It looks like...
that this business of trying to learn to write the somebody nobody had initiated yet in order not to write like anybody else is crap--that why in hell should we let ourselves get chased up into the reviews just because other people had farmed the good land before us--that the really great boys have been interested in writing poems not in writing poems differently--that why are we so scared of a cliche anyway...
...professional and business people, but the flight is pure pleasure, the complimentary champagne flows and, best of all, the round-trip ticket is free. Thirty-five minutes later, the aircraft touches down near Atlantic City, and after a ten-minute ride into town, the jetting junketers are at the crap and blackjack tables of Resorts International's huge Casino Hotel. Resorts expects each of them to wager at least $1,000 and is privately counting on earning an average of about 18? on each dollar bet before they are whisked back home at the end of the evening...
King, and Romero begin by using this format in a cleverly literal way. The film opens with a burst of dialogue breaking the stolid silence of some suburban Elm St. "I told you not to read this crap! Where did you get this shit?" an irate dad yells at his son cowering among toy monsters in the bedroom. The father snatches the latest issue of "Creepshow" from the boy's hands. The camera then focuses on the comic book as it lies in the front lawn garbage can, letting the wind-ruffled pages tell each story by segueing from animated...