Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is no proven link between smoking and diseases such as lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease. Then why do 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...
...always 'round midnight, the mood is always accepting (it's not why you play but how you play that counts), and even agents and club owners are basically benign. Trouble is always an intruder from outside -- a narc obsessed with pinning bad raps on musicians, society ladies slumming, rock 'n' roll making rude noises on the periphery -- attacking the soul when it is restlessly idling between gigs. Bird, for all his troubles, is a wonderfully attractive figure, delighting in the lilt of big words and fine phrases, turning the memory of the moment he found his style into a throwaway...
...fort guarding the main harbor of the Dutch West Indian island of St. Eustatius. Legitimizing the rebels with this ritual act was particularly galling because the Caribbean port was used, despite repeated British protests, to supply American troops with gunpowder and shot. St. Eustatius was Holland's "Golden Rock," a neutral speck devoted entirely to commerce...
...projects her dreams onto her son Jesse, a rock and roll singer who has failed at everything. Jesse's marriage to one of his groupies, Fiona, ended in divorce. But they had a daughter, named Leroy. During the time when Jesse's family were part of Maggie's life, they were everything to her. And when Fiona and Leroy fled, seven years before the novel opens, Maggie was left with an abandonment she cannot forget and a rift she is determined to mend...
...athletes who use these drugs jeopardize their own careers, not to mention their lives. It is indeed unfortunate that Ben Johnson, who was once briefly at the top, just as swiftly hit rock bottom...