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...innocence. But in the end, Sweet Sixteen is broken. Drug dealer and pimp Baba (Nana Patekar) beguiles her into a realization of sexuality, though he treats the process as unemotionally as if her were training colts. But what can you expect from a man who decides to whip his pusher in front of a Western journalist who has been interviewing him? Patekar's Baba is fierce and unpleasant, cold and calculating in a way that sends proverbial tingles over the spine. And he will cause some trouble for the little hero...
...their advertising campaigns so often rely on giving the product away so people will try it? The most shameless example of such desperation advertising came when RJR-Nabisco sponsored rock concerts with famous entertainers and charged five empty cigarette packages for admission. This is reminiscent of the drug pusher who gives out samples to hook people; addicts have to supply their habits, after...
...Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending it 125 ft. high, its miniature control flaps guiding it across the field for 67 sec., one of three flights that made it second in its class at the Nats...
...course as a novelist, his afternoons are free. No nine to five obligations for this pen pusher. Such is not the case for most folk, though, and there's just a bit of arrogance, dare I say elitism, in this novelist's attitude. Sitting in the stands on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in Wrigley, clad in Polo shirt and docksiders, our novelist had forgotten the most important thing about major league baseball...
Also lingering on most street corners are supporters of extremist Lyndon LaRouche, himself a one-time pretender to the White House. His followers try to convince passers by that the Queen of England is a dope pusher and accuse opponents of being cocaine addicts...