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...nearly continuously drunk and high from ingesting the cotton soaked wads of Benzedrex inhalers and drinking alcohol and cough syrup. He broke into women’s homes and stole their panties. He worked at a store called Porno Villa and afterwards would “drink [himself] into oblivion,” over his loneliness...
That scene is now as dated as Pel and skirted soccer gear. A year ago, just months after the hit film's U.S. release, the WUSA folded, citing crippling debt and $20 million in annual losses. Among other problems, the league spent itself into oblivion, having budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years yet laid out $100 million in the first three. Says industry consultant David Carter, founder of Sports Business Group, based in Redondo Beach, Calif.: "The WUSA blew through money like drunken dotcommers...
...more than her resolve could bear. It's a classic Kennedy moment, the kind of divine comedic intervention that lights up her best fiction and overwhelms the bleakest corners. There could be no more astute and no less tedious a companion than Kennedy on a bender to oblivion. Salman Rushdie said once that what he sought in his novels was to fill the "god-shaped hole" left by his loss of faith. Her faith intact, Kennedy knows that God can be discerned in many things, even in the perfect form - a "long, slim doorway to somewhere else" - of a bottle...
...such experiments. Last fall animal conservationists were caught catnapping when a new survey revealed a sharp and unexpected drop in Africa's lion population. While the cat-conservation world was worried about the fate of Asia's endangered tigers, lions--considered vulnerable but not endangered--were quietly slipping toward oblivion. Ten years ago, the species was thought to number as many as 100,000. But the new appraisal, made public last September and published in the journal Oryx in January by Hans Bauer of Leiden University and Sarel van der Merwe of the African Lion Working Group, was a paltry...
...city. But why did they have to drag us out here and leave us," wonders Amy, in a typically Beyerian "punch line." Other strips read like Sartre doing "The Lockhorns." In one typical example, the objects in their apartment simply begin fading away, including Jordan. "I'm fading into oblivion," he tells Amy, "just a bad memory that you will soon forget." The transcendent ingenuity of "A+J" combines laughable cartoonish miseries with sometimes-profound metaphors for such subjects as the transience of objects and memory...