Word: kicking
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...arrogantly lassoes garbage cans and jukeboxes. She hangs around the tatty trailer camp, sponging the Mojave Desert dust off her body, waiting for night and their star-crossed adagio to start all over again. No use her slamming the industrial-strength front door on Eddie; he'll just kick it through. She wouldn't, can't have it any other way. They've got to keep these lusts and animosities going like weasels in heat. It's in their blood. And heaven help the poor interloper--a nice guy from the next town, say, or an innocent moviegoer--who tries...
...Love, he situates May's sad childhood literally next door to her fated present and sets Eddie's monologue memories colliding with the flashback images that accompany them. You can have some cerebral fun with this game of What's Going On? What you miss is the gonadal kick of watching a nuclear family detonating its own apocalypse...
...women. Glycel will be marketed by Alfin Fragrances, a Manhattan-based perfume maker. Alfin expects to introduce Glycel by February in about 500 tony stores. The product line will reportedly range in price from a $30 skin cleanser to a $195 package of five items. MANAGEMENT Too Little Kick from Champale...
Terence J. Fox made his fortune producing Champale, a malt liquor that mimics champagne. Now Fox's downfall may come from a more expensive kind of kick: cocaine. Last week Fox, the chairman of Greenwich, Conn.-based Iroquois Brands (1984 sales: $142 million), pleaded innocent to charges of possessing $8,000 worth of cocaine. Police arrested the executive, 47, and a female companion in a Hartford hotel earlier this month after the officers allegedly spotted the drug lying openly on a bed. Police claim they also found equipment used to smoke the substance, a process called free-basing that produces...
...jerry-built scheme adopted last month that mandates automatic reductions in federal spending if necessary to reach specific deficit-cutting targets. The tumult caused by this unprecedented measure, whose constitutionality is under challenge, will begin almost immediately. On Jan. 10, budget officials in the White House and Congress will kick the law into force by producing an estimate of the current fiscal year's looming deficit, probably about $200 billion. To limit the shortfall this year, Reagan will be forced by Gramm-Rudman to order cuts totaling some $11.7 billion, half from defense and half from civilian spending that...