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They were all from Forest Hills in Queens. Dee Dee hustled for dope money on the corner of 53rd and Third, on the run from a desolate Army-brat childhood in Germany. When he couldn't get dope he would sniff glue. He would do anything, take any kind of drug. I remember seeing him on St. Mark's Place after he left the band, hair short and spiky, in skintight Spandex pants that looked left over from some mall scene of years before. He was thin, "on the heroin diet" as we used to say. Somehow he survived, fought...
...diehard Sox fan, my last statement is eminently possible. Cold, hard Reality, however, suggests otherwise. Without Nomar for half the season, the team has lost its glue. The defense is remarkably sketchy. Even with Pedro starting, the team lost its season opener yesterday to Baltimore, one of the worst teams in the major leagues...
...through 5 teachers were not so much mentors and confidants, molding the malleable minds of youth into receptacles for knowledge and engines of analytical thought, as they were herders, attentive sheep-dogs that rounded up the young'uns and kept them under control with colored paper and white glue. This observation by no means demeans the job of elementary school teachers in any way; with an entire battalion of hyperactive, incoherent children bouncing into one another like paste-eating billiard balls, only the most impressive manipulation of mob psychology is effective in merely controlling the little monsters at these high...
...Everyone is feeling very sad about their departure," said John P. Gerry, who served as senior tutor of Quincy for more than four years before stepping down at the beginning of this semester. "Mike and Marjorie are thought of as centers of the House, the glue that holds the community together," he said...
...with a group of friends in Tokyo. I inhaled the smoke from smoothed-out tinfoil sheets folded in two, holding a lighter beneath the foil so that the shards of shabu liquefied, turning to a thick, pungent, milky vapor. The smoke tasted like a mixture of turpentine and model glue; to this day I can't smell paint thinner without thinking of smoking speed...