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...critic for Life magazine, Goldman found his calling as a merciless demythologizer of such pop icons as Lenny Bruce (in 1974's Ladies and Gentlemen -- Lenny Bruce!!), Elvis Presley (Elvis, 1981) and John Lennon (The Lives of John Lennon, 1988). No one would call these biographies "appreciations": the sordid side of his subjects -- from Presley's addictions and gluttony to Lennon's appetite for violence and sex -- fascinated Goldman. All of it was served up in high- voltage prose. Goldman was at work on a biography of rocker Jim Morrison at the time of his death...
Along the 2,200 miles of the winding Rio Grande and land border with the U.S. the story is also one of sordid contrasts, but the people who live there and the thousands moving in are optimistic. "This is the best of two worlds," says Fadia Barraza, a university freshman in Juarez. "Life gets steadily better." At the maquilas, the sprawling assembly plants that produce goods for export to the U.S., parking lots filled with employees' cars suggest she is right...
...Daphne Zuniga) gets involved with a guy who turns out to be a drug dealer and who kidnaps her while she is aboard his boat. Trying to escape, she shoots him in self-defense, then narrowly avoids being tried for murder. When the whole sordid affair is over, Jo discovers that she is pregnant by the sleazebag. Yet she moonily declares, "Now that I'm pregnant, I realize that I really do want a baby...
...another Spring Break approaches, I begin to reminisce about what happened to me last Spring Break. Finally, I feel comfortable enough telling the sordid tale. The only reason I feel somewhat less uncomfortable than I might otherwise is the fortunate fact that one of the characters in this story recently graduated. The odds of him reading this article are about as likely as me getting a date. of course, if he did somehow get hold of this article, I would be a dead...
...many ways, The Faculty Club is lessstately and more raucous than outsiders mightexpect. Take, for example, a sordid tale from itsrecent past. "We had an Era of Horse Steak,beginning in the 1940s, which is always infamous,"Coulson says. During World War II, standard redmeats--beef, pork, veal, lamb, etc.--became hardto come by, and the Club increasingly had to relyon alternative ingredients...