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Right now, however, she's lighting one last pipeful in a ritual as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony. She ignites a propane torch and holds the blue flame beneath the smudge of powder in her clear glass pipe. Crank is smoked differently than crack cocaine; it takes less heat and melts instantly (burning away the impurities, Alicia says). Once the drug vaporizes in a white cloud, Alicia inhales. She then repeats the process. The residues in the pipe, called frosties, are infinitely valuable to crankers, and Alicia keeps torching them until they're gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...knife. "This is his résumé," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "He knows how difficult it is to run for president from the chaotic House, so he needs to develop a track record of being the one true man among the scoundrels -- the keeper of the flame." Kasich's larger problem is with the political and economic tides; with the budget surplus estimated at $34 billion and counting, shrinking the government just doesn't seem as urgent as it used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Presidential Run Begins in Congress | 6/5/1998 | See Source »

...likes to campaign more than he doesgoverning," Adams says. "This is a person wholikes to get near the flame. He likes to be nearthe edge. He is risk-prone...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Style Still Lives | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

...some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing to do," she told the critic loudly. "I loved this man. I still love this man, and you hurt him terribly." Bernard stood her ground, but unfortunately for the assembled press, it did not come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Moody has the unusual talent of being able to describe a scene beautifully is slow motion with language that never gets boring; his description of Hex's high school flame's walk to his table is unforgettable...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moody Novel Is No Pity Party | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

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