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...just a regular Joe, see, just a working stiff with a missus who likes her fiction cheap. She doesn't have her nose stuck in a thriller, she's not happy. So one day she sees an ad for a mystery weekend. You go to some dive and they fake a murder and you try to solve the case. A snap, she says to me, a downhill roll. She should live so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York State: Who Poisoned the Pudding? | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

Reeves has woven a good murder mystery, but Doublin Thomas is also extravagant and funny in a black comic way. When Theron, his nose brutally broken by his ex-wife's boyfriend, goes to bed with his ex-wife, Reeves's description both funny and morbid...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel and Cecil D. Quillen, S | Title: Academia's Angst | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Each exertion, I soon discovered, each surge of blood through my veins, triggered a fresh torment to my nose. Every time I gave myself the pleasure, a thump of pain brought me back... I smiled painfully. "Feels great," My nose not a nose, but a raw pulsing nerve...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel and Cecil D. Quillen, S | Title: Academia's Angst | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...night on cocaine and get racing, then later on use alcohol to come down and get to sleep," says Kevin McEneaney of Phoenix House, a Manhattan drug- free center. "They may also use alcohol to mask other drugs. Drinking is more respectable than putting powder in your nose." Illinois State Trooper Bob Campbell says teenagers often cover drugs by having a drink before driving. If they are stopped by police, the blood alcohol level will be too low to result in arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: One Less for the Road? | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...part of a wave of self-love," says Author-Humorist Fran Lebowitz. "They've overweighted the sanctity of the human body. These bodies aren't temples. They're barely bodegas." Says Screenwriter Greenfeld: "It's fear of embarrassment. In Hollywood you can stuff coke up your nose until it falls off. But God forbid you should appear drunk in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Water, Water Everywhere | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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