Word: fiends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking testimony to the hot and cold, the good and bad, in our everyday existence in this society when we can see a good citizen like Tiny Tim marry beautiful Vicky Budinger the same day that a 19 year-old dope fiend cheats his way to a pancake eating title. Dancer's Image was forced to surrender the top prize at the Kentucky Derby, and in view of this clear precedent, Quincy House should strip the pancake title from the Raccoon. Aunt Jemima would want it no other...
WOULDN'T YOU know it? Kerouac is dead. Neal Cassady is dead, and now Kerouac, of a "massive hemorrhage." He drank too much. He couldn't seem to make the transition to the flower- power scene. He was too much the dirty bum, the dope fiend, the sinner redeemed through his sin, innocent the whole way, embarrassingly sincere, impatient, hostile, one of the most generous souls of his time, a creator of the American underground, avatar of the ones who could not fight the Nova Police because there were too few of them, and they would have been crushed: William...
...full of wild vagaries that I have doubted my own sanity." In Rome, he watched the Pope passing in a street procession and was seized by a wild urge to assault him on the spot. After returning to England, he confided to friends that he felt "the Great Fiend" was pursuing him. His worried father took him to the country for a rest. While the pair was strolling after supper, Richard Dadd turned on his father and stabbed him through the heart...
Winfield, who began fencing only two years ago, has no regrets about joining the ranks of the jocks. "I was a science fiction fiend and a lot of the heroes ran around with swords. I thought...
Levin is something of a Mozart fiend. He claims he owns recordings of 591 of Mozart's 626 works, including many which he recorded himself because there was no recording to purchase. Levin says he has friends in several countries watching for the remaining works, but he believes they have not been recorded...