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...four." And: "Evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. I could very easily destroy myself. It is ten o'clock now and I am thinking about the noontime snort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack, Wrench, Hubcap, and Nuts: The intimate journals of John Cheever are full of conflicts about marriage, writing, drinking and sex | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

GoodFellas Martin Scorsese's Mafia wiseguys rob decent folks, kill crippled kids, snort and sell coke -- and have a swell time together -- in this dark farce that blazes through its 2 1/2 hours like a hit man on a contract high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Movies | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...didn't do it -- O.K., so maybe he did it. But Washington Mayor Marion Barry did not fess up to a cocaine problem until he was convicted on a misdemeanor charge of possession. Even then, Barry's contrition was about as deep as a one-snort line of cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Most of Ethics | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Asking of the Math Department, "what do they know about time travel? Snort! Most mathematicians can't tell a second hand from second base," Gonick begins his history with an excellent overview of the origins of the universe and life on earth...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: 4,500,000,000 Years in 350 pages | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

These days Ms. Fisher is needling the world with several potent concoctions. A movie adaptation of her best-selling snort-and-chortle novel, Postcards from the Edge, has opened big. It features Fisher's screenplay directed by Mike Nichols, with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as the star-worn daughter and mother. There is also a new paperback edition of her novel to add to the media jet stream. And Fisher's lovelorn modern romance, Surrender the Pink, has just been published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIE FISHER: A Spy In Her Own House | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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