Word: fiending
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...Stevenson's original 1886 novella kept Dr. Jekyll's secret until two-thirds through the book. No longer a mystery to anyone, Mattotti and Kramsky wisely focus instead on Jekyll's motivations in releasing the nefarious Hyde. They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend whose animal lusts culminate when he tears a prominent socialite to pieces. Thus, while Mattotti and Kramsky retain the original's central hypothesis that man has two natures, they move it to a place that Stevenson would not or could...
...VanderWal, a high school senior and the younger sister of notorious pot fiend Tracy B. VanderWal ’05, visited last weekend. VanderWal, who doesn’t want to be responsible for his sister’s introduction to pot, instructed his blockmates on Friday afternoon not to smoke or tell any weed-related stories for the entire weekend. His plan backfired when the complete lack of conversation topics caused by the marijuana ban convinced his sister to attend Brown next year...
First, “Harvard: Hidden Termbill Increases” would be an acceptable answer to the SAT Verbal analogy “CRACK FIEND: CRACK.” Whatever Harvard’s motivations for withholding cable are, they surely have nothing to do with keeping termbill increases either transparent or democratic. Prescription drug plan expansion. Activities fee hikes. Mandatory telephone service, which, as a bonus, is run by idiots. Need I list more...
...mother is a sweet-toothed snob. She doesn’t waste her time, or caloric intake, on low-quality chocolate. She is a dark chocolate fiend and finds her fix at the Godiva counter at any department store. I’ve inherited her build, her temperament and her passion for the infamous aphrodisiac...
...begins when Talcott realizes that his father's case isn't quite closed. At the funeral a sinister billionaire confronts him about some mysterious "arrangements" the judge made before his death, of which Talcott knows nothing. A white chess pawn--the judge was a chess fiend--is delivered by an unknown messenger. The priest who delivered Oliver's eulogy turns up dead, his body grotesquely tortured (Carter might want to tell his kids to avert their eyes at this point). As in all good mysteries, the key to the present lies in the past, and to find it, Talcott must...