Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knee-replacement operation, takes steroids for a muscle disorder, and has been spotted with a cigarette in one hand and an asthma inhaler in the other. "One," he bellows into the telephone, then hangs up. His secretary appears bearing a single cigarette from a pack imprisoned in her desk, which he lights with a silver lighter. He claims to have cut from three packs a day to less than half a pack; in the next 90 minutes he smokes three...
...find herself ignored and abused in a menial job. But Carpenter surely knows that thirtysomething angst is just half the story; a woman is not only a victim. So she has peppered her new album with anthems to emotional resilience. In I Feel Lucky, reckless living ("I bought a pack of Camels, a burrito and a Barq's") pays off with quick millions and a dream night in a bar: "Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh...
...Keith Smith, a minister's son in Waukegan, Ill. Smith called it quits last August after eight months of gang banging with a pack called the Latin Lovers. The de-initiation ceremony took place right before midnight in a local park. The ground rules: four against one for three minutes, no weapons. Smith, then 15, collapsed after the first minute. He remained in a coma for 58 days...
...Frances Sandoval, founder of Mothers Against Gangs in Chicago, gets tearful phone calls from parents with kids too scared to leave a gang but terrified of staying in. "Unfortunately, there is very little I can offer them," she says. "In most cases it's hopeless unless they can literally pack up and leave. And we're talking about moving to another state...
Then it's all flying fists and boots and maybe even a knife or chain until the rage is exhausted and a body drops to the ground -- just another punk expelled from the pack...