Word: heroines
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Manhattan's demimonde of the 1980s has ravaged many a fictional character, but few as mercilessly as Adrian Sellars, an art gallery owner whose troubles are mounting like so many empty bottles of opening-night Mondavi. Sellars is plagued by a lust for both heroin and a beautiful Harlem drug dealer. His forgery scam is going awry, his partner winds up murdered, and a Japanese mobster is threatening to kill Sellars and his family if he does not deliver a promised Monet...
...fictional story and that of the author. Ramus, a wan Alec Baldwin look-alike, is a first-time novelist with a potential best seller in his future, and also a possible prison sentence. Like his protagonist, in the '80s he was an art dealer with a fondness for heroin. By the '90s he had overcome his drug problems, but questionable business dealings left him with a $4 million debt and allegations of fraud...
Jerry Garcia used heroin within days of his fatal heart attack, but drugs did not play a direct role in his death, according to a coroner's report released today. Instead, the Grateful Dead guitarists's his heart simply gave out. Garcia died Aug. 9 after checking into a drug rehabilitation clinic in Northern California. "He was a 53-year-old man with hardening of the arteries," Marin County coroner's investigator Gary Erickson said. "This was a mechanical process." (Two of three arteries leading from Garcia's heart had been reduced to "a pinpoint.") Heroin or no heroin, music...
Garcia too was a suicidal adventurer. He did coke the way some people drink the stuff, and romanced heroin to the end. He was in and out of hospitals and rehab centers; in 1986 he fell into a coma. Last year he collapsed at his home and promised to reform. But that was not in his nature. "You're out there on the edge," Kesey says, "where it's beyond dangerous to your life--it's dangerous to your soul. And Garcia was on that edge for 30 years. It's like when the King asked Mozart why he drank...
Thanks to an Italian law passed in 1993 that prevents people with AIDS from being thrown in jail, a group of HIV-infected bank robbers in Turin were freed after their fourth holdup in three weeks. The three men, described by police as heroin addicts with full-blown AIDS, have carried out dozens of heists. Said a police spokesman: "They know they can't be imprisoned, so they take no precautions...They robbed the last bank in full view of the security cameras, armed only with a pocket knife...