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...manhunt leave you wanting? Is spectacle, not suicide, what you crave? Then here, for your VCR, are some fictional blazes of glory that put the news channels to shame. James Cagney's classic White Heat might just be the king of them all. Said to be based on Arthur "Doc" Barker and his "Ma," Cagney's mama's boy Cody Jarrett went out, back in 1949, like no one before or since. One of the first strictly setting-driven action movie finales (think of the two Terminators and their convenient ending locales), and also the hardest-boiled. Absolutely required...
...sugar, for instance--have backfired in modern society. Just as a surfeit of food and a dearth of exercise have conspired to turn heart disease and diabetes into major health problems, so the easy availability of addictive chemicals has played a devious trick. Addicts do not crave heroin or cocaine or alcohol or nicotine per se but want the rush of dopamine that these drugs produce...
...Bundy family will bicker no more after May 5. Married, which got an early publicity break when housewife Terry Rakolta launched a national boycott against it for being "antifamily," drew more than 18 million viewers in its heyday but garners less than half that now. And for those who crave dysfunction, there's always The Honeymooners reruns...
...learned to loathe Loker but to crave caffeine. You've learned how to do your own laundry and select the best dryers. You've even managed to tolerate your smelly roommate...
...gone are the days when you could easily buy a quality bank or phone stock, live off the dividends and still watch the stock rise. Now, if you crave big dividends, you're pretty much stuck with the tainted tobacco industry or iffy electric utilities. You could choose other stocks, sell them as they rise and live off the gains. Indeed, tax law favors such capital gains over dividend income for most people. But the hitch appears when the stock market reverses or slows, which it eventually must. Then, investors seeking steady income are stuck with a sickly 1 point...