Search Details

Word: heroines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Last year his turn as Vincent Vega, the menacing, ingratiating hit man in Pulp Fiction--linguistic philosopher, dancing man, heroin addict--earned him an Academy Award nomination. And the picture earned the gratitude of that minority among us who think most contemporary movies, far from being too violent, are suffering a terminal case of the blahs. Now he's about to return as another unlikely hoodlum, at once incisive and dreamy, in Get Shorty, also a smart, shrewdly crafted movie, but one that's less dangerous, easier for everyone to like, than Pulp Fiction. There's every chance it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TRAVOLTA FEVER | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

Down on his luck and out of work, Marc D. Goldfinger, a homeless heroin addict who by his own admission hadn't worked an honest day's work in years, found an organization that needed...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Homeless Magazine Improves Operations | 9/23/1995 | See Source »

...came aboard as a homeless, heroin addict and [the paper] was one of the things that helped me turn my life around," he says. "I was able to put down the heroin that had been plaguing my life for 32 years...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Homeless Magazine Improves Operations | 9/23/1995 | See Source »

Goldfinger says he wants to see the paper aid people like him, a recovering heroin addict, recapture their lives...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Homeless Magazine Improves Operations | 9/23/1995 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISHING: THE ART OF THE DEALER | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | Next