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...first, Lawrence regarded the episode as a freak occurrence. The symptoms of Parkinson's are notoriously unpredictable, and it seemed like just another of the disease's erratic turns. But then he tried ecstasy again, and once more he was able for hours at a time to regain something close to the athletic grace he once possessed. Yet when he mentioned the experience to his doctors, they dismissed it as a result of the street drug's known amphetamine qualities. So Lawrence thought little more about it, other than to make the most of ecstasy's unexpected side effect...
...choruses or Brechtian song interludes. For one play, F------ A (Parks doesn't use the dashes), she invented a new language that some characters use when they talk about sex. In Venus, her epic on the life of the Hottentot Venus, a 19th century African woman displayed as a freak because of her huge buttocks, one scene runs through the intermission. "I try to tell the story I'm hearing in my head, by any means necessary," she says. "And sometimes it comes out looking weird...
...Trumptation Island b) Who Wants to Marry a Freak? c) Rich Man, Bald Man d) Billionaire...
...blond from Huntington Beach, Calif., was reared by battling parents who taught her that marriage should be an equal partnership. But the writer, who bills herself in her biography as "a feminist and former shrew," says she nearly ruined her marriage to husband John, 44, by becoming a control freak, constantly nagging and demeaning him. Doyle says she turned to happier friends for advice. One told her she never criticized her husband; another said she gave hers control of the money. From there, and aided by ideas in other self-help books, Doyle formulated the concept of the surrendered wife...
...Furthermore, some of the handiest aspects of DVD players are absent, most particularly the ability to search. With no time counter and only one speed for fast-forwarding, getting to your favorite line can mean sitting through several minutes of watching the characters hop around like speed-freak mutes...