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...skin was covered with sores from malnutrition. The free-basing also caused rashes and made his tongue so swollen that he could barely talk. In one of the fits of rage that accompanied the "down" periods, he snapped off two teeth. Shards of broken glass pipes formed a thigh-high pile. The apartment was rancid, filled with unwashed clothes and dishes. The doctor did not notice. He spent most of his time in the shower, even smoking his coke there, to relieve the constant sweating. "I went as low as you can go without dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: I Thought I Was God | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...chest, which he had doused with lighter fluid. The match went out. He touched another match to his leg. That too went out. He stumbled a few steps toward the lighter fluid, splashed more on, returned to the camera, squatted and touched another match to his left thigh. A tiny glow appeared, then spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When News Is Almost a Crime | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...Lauderdale, Fla. The onetime Olympic oarsman, in town to give a rowing demonstration, was making a call from a phone booth when he was approached by a man with a small-caliber revolver who demanded money. Kelly tried to push him away, and the man shot him in the thigh. Kelly's doctors at the Broward General Medical Center reported that there apparently was no permanent damage and that he could soon return home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jan. 10, 1983 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...birth and helped me become a revolutionary." And Abbie Hoffman (presumably on radical Jewish impotence): "Fidel [Castro] sits on the side of a tank rumbling into Havana on New Year's day... The tank stops in the city square. Fidel lets the gun drop to the ground, slaps his thigh and stands erect. He is like a mighty penis coming to life..." Insight into the confused thinking of men such as Rubin and Hoffman is valuable, but the authors do not adequately prove that Rubin's excesses were attributable to religion, merely because he once said as much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roots of Rage | 12/3/1982 | See Source »

Milwaukee starter Pete Vukovich then threw one of the night's several errant pitches at Angel second baseman Bobby Grich, hitting him on the thigh Grich took first loading the bases for shortstop Tim Foli. Usually not a dangerous hitter. Foli managed to line a short single to left, scoring Eynn Catcher Bob Boone laid down a fine squeeze bunt, bringing DeCinces in. Vukovich escaped without further damage by getting left fielder Brian Downing to pop up, stranding two California runners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kison's Five-Hitter Stymies Brewers; Mr. October Sets Series RBI Record | 10/7/1982 | See Source »

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