Word: dope
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Brightly colored bumper stickers decorate the narrow entryway. One of the favorites with the customers, he says, is the sticker that reads "Grow your own dope: plant...
People who win lotteries generally fit into two groups. The boringly cautious type who vows to keep the same job and make no major changes except for longer vacations; and the dope who buys everything in sight and has a line of bill collectors at his door inside of a year. But seldom do you hear about winners like Maurizio Badolato, who turn their good fortune into harder work, longer hours and more stress. Last week I went to Boston to find out how this poor guy could get it so wrong...
...chocolatier will perhaps evoke for sardonic viewers the old dope peddler of Tom Lehrer's song, "spreading joy wherever [s]he goes." Indeed, some of the desserts apparently contain aphrodisiacs. The movie itself may suggest to those who find themselves unsusceptible to its fabulistic charms how easy it has become to travesty the manner of what used to be thought of as "art movies." This one has something of their air--an attractive, slightly exotic setting; characters who appear to have some substance and some curious quirks. But everything is spun toward sugary sentimentality...
...depths Antley had sunk to. At 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 28, police came to the Pasadena home to find Antley and Tyler--and methamphetamine and marijuana. Antley told the police, "The meth and the marijuana is not mine. The other guy brought it." Antley, however, admitted to using dope a few hours before the cops arrived. (The drug charges against both men were later dropped...
...mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp) who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled and unsettling ways. The chocolatier will perhaps evoke for sardonic viewers the old dope peddler of Tom Lehrer's song, "spreading joy wherever [s] he goes." Indeed, some of the desserts apparently contain aphrodisiacs. The movie itself may suggest to those who find themselves unsusceptible to its fabulistic charms how easy it has become to travesty the manner of what used to be thought...