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...Wozencraft is a former narcotics policewoman who got hooked on drugs and became an armed robber. In this fictive treatment, the protagonist is called Kristen Cates, but all resemblances to the author are strictly intentional. The upright Texas girl gets hooked in order to trap a dealer, backslides into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...stories is enriching novelists as well. Producer Richard Zanuck was filming Driving Miss Daisy a year ago when he heard about a first- time novelist peddling a manuscript based on her real-life experience as a Texas narcotics cop who got hooked on cocaine. By the time author Kim Wozencraft sold Rush to Random House for a $35,000 advance, Zanuck had already won the film rights for $1 million. The price was no fluke. Last month Tom Cruise paid about $1 million for the rights to Big Time, a novel by mystery writer Marcel Monticino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Really Won the Lottery This Time: Hollywod Screenwriters | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...varsity 'A' summary: Foster (H) defeated Holt, 15-9, 9-15, 15-7, 16-18, 15-6; Clark (H) defeated Wozencraft, 15-10, 15-5, 15-9; Ufford (H) defeated Boorman, 15-16, 15-11, 15-3, 15-4; Bacon (H) defeated Bernbaum, default; Rogers (MIT) defeated Watts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 4 Squash Teams Gain League Wins | 1/19/1951 | See Source »

...individual matches Nawn (H) defeated Holt 15-5, 15-6, 12-15, 15-9; Clark (H) defeated Boorman 15-10, 15-11, 12-15, 15-10, Ufford (H) defeated Wozencraft 15-10, 15-10, 12-15, 15-10, Watts (H) defeated Rogers 10-15, 12-15-10, 15-4, 15-11; Bacon (H) defeated Averbach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Varsity Wins | 12/6/1950 | See Source »

Hugh Foster (H) defeated Holt (MIT), 15-12, 15-7, 18-17; Nawn (H) defeated Borrmann (MIT), 15-4, 15-11, 15-8; Henry Foster (H) defeated Rogers (MIT), 14-15, 15-11, 15-11, 15-11; Plimpton (H) defeated Wozencraft (MIT), 15-9, 15-10, 17-16; Bacon (H) defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squash Team Defeats MIT Faculty | 1/18/1950 | See Source »

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