Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peewee's is a dark, spare apartment with peeling paint and an aroma like a freshly emptied garbage can. Four white women sit around a table with needles hanging from their thin, gooseflesh-covered arms. Three are attractive professionals in their early 20s: a magazine photographer, a Wall Street secretary and a junior executive at an advertising agency. The fourth is an older woman in a designer suit. Peewee, a gentle black, is injecting heroin into his arm, each time drawing a little blood back into the syringe. This pumping technique, known as booting, prolongs the rush. Afterward, Peewee...
...move, slightly. But I had been up for more than 24 hours and thought it was just fatigue. Then he moved again. And the nurse gave him to me. He was strong enough, at that point, to hold one adult finger. He had my eyebrows, Cindy's long thin fingers, a head of hair, and a mouth that seemed a cross between us both...
...want to laugh about death. I think we should. When my mother died, I kept going by doing joke after joke. I get rid of things through very black humor. I have a wonderful Karen Carpenter joke: 'I have no pity for anyone who becomes thin enough to get buried in pleats.' I tried it three times, and audiences gasped. They're just not ready...
Daniel deLallis, the Coop's book director, attributed the thin showing to confusion over the date of Hart's appearance at the Coop Originally. Hart was supposed to arrive just before spring break but a Senate filibuster forced him to reschedule his appearance...
...times are changing, and so are the kids. Realizing that thin is in and fitness is the fashion, the Campbell Soup Co. has made its pudgy pixies taller, trimmer and more athletic. The transformation is part of the company's drive to convince the yogurt-and-vitamin crowd that soup from a can is as nutritious as anything found in a health-food store. As part of the effort, Campbell is sponsoring the U.S. figure-skating team and has managed to get its products designated the "official soups" of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The new, thinner...