Word: junking
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...companion, Virginia Perham, Olsen details the rage behind the go-getter smile. The vaunted independence was in fact financed by parental handouts. Often impotent, Coe bragged of his sexual prow ess to Perham as if she had not witnessed his failures. He alternately fasted and gorged on junk food, used the name Kevin with girlfriends and clients and spoke in a variety of voice inflections. "Knowing Fred Coe," said a schoolmate, "was like having a platoon of friends...
...Marco Polo of Junk Food, as he is known to awestruck lesser feeders, is renowned for his courageous researches into such regional American delicacies as barbecued chicken wings and Philadelphia cheese steaks. Here he is on a less eupeptic journey. We may assume that Calvin Trillin occasionally takes on a plateful of crab cakes or refried beans, but only as fuel. As his title indicates, this time Topic A is violent death...
...weaknesses with elaborate set changes and highly imaginative props. But while they pull out all the stops, we can't help but think that the effects are just too much. As the colored lights flash and wink in bright display, the scene comes to resemble a glitzy junk yard Christmas. At the play's climactic moment, when a glittering floating cloud carries an aging cat away into the sky to be reborn, the illusion erodes into little more than J. Alfred Prufrock meets Star Wars...
...rush to capitalize on rising prices and public enthusiasm. That situation occurred early last summer, when the prices of newly issued securities reached their peak. Observes Sanford Robertson, a founder of Robertson, Colman & Stephens, an investment-banking firm in San Francisco: "In the summer there was a lot of junk. There were a lot of things with too high a price and too low a quality...
White's lawyer claimed that his client suffered "diminished mental capacity" caused at least in part by eating too much junk food. A number of San Franciscans accused authorities of not trying hard enough to convict White, a former police officer and fireman...