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Leonard's world splashes across a crowded Dickensian canvas where social strata collide, and the gravedigger waits by the charnel house. In this underworld, usually located in downtown Detroit or Miami's coke country, thugs and pushers are unappealing, malignant-and instantly recognizable. All one needs to know of Hit Man Eddie Moke in Stick, for instance, is that he changed his image from heavy metal to urban cowboy but still looked "like he mainlined cement." Paco Boza, a Cuban street junkie of LaBrava, tools around South Miami Beach in a stolen Eastern Airlines wheelchair "because he didn...
...less waste. Manufacturers have developed smaller, more efficient stoves. But poor burning practices abound. Homeowners sometimes toss green, moist wood into their fires, along with rubbish and newspapers. (The EPA recommends wood that has been air-dried at least a year.) Mark Loding, a chimney sweep who practices his Dickensian craft in the Charlevoix-Petoskey-Harbor Springs area of Michigan, is appalled by the fire making habits of his customers. Says he: "Chimneys are clogged with nasty stuff. People are putting in too much wood and not allowing enough air to reach the fire...
...Frommer, however, has not. Still the popular Baedeker of Bermuda-shorts wearers everywhere, Europe on $20 approaches the Continent as a kind of Disneyland for post-adolescents, and brims with a wide-eyed sense of wonder. But after one too many meals in department-store cafeterias, one too many Dickensian bed-and-breakfasts and one too many afternoons of hauling dirty laundry around Zurich in a vain search for the cheap laundromats that Frommer assures us "abound" (they do not), even the most economical tourist may sneak a look at what Birnbaum...
Inside the club, preppie Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), the sharpest commodity trader going, is reporting to his employers, the brothers Duke. This pair are Dickensian in their meanness and cupidity, but right up to date in their desire to manipulate people for the sheer nasty fun of it. Winthorpe III, it should be noted, is Billy Ray's soul brother in just one way: he is not as bright as he thinks he is either...
...gaudy vengefulness. Odets and his group dumped her. She was cast in forgettable B pictures. Her caustic temper cost her: Farmer's rap sheet was soon as long as her filmography. After one pathetic performance before a California judge, she was sent to the first of an increasingly Dickensian series of asylums, undergoing shock treatment, gang rape and perhaps even a lobotomy...