Word: addict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bergman arched the fatigue out of his shoulders and watched the street quickly clear of frozen extras and old cars. He never goes out during filming. He is a television addict who keeps logs on programs (his favorite is the latest Upstairs, Downstairs). "At the end of a shooting day," he says, "I'm often so tired you could put me into a black box. And yet, going home to my family seems a kind of intrusion. I have an urge to stay right here at the studio, sleep on a cot and stay with the project...
...effective a boycott could be is uncertain. The hardened coffee addict is no more likely to drink tea than an alcoholic is to develop a taste for orange soda. Coffee can thus withstand price rises that most other commodities cannot. Camillo Calazans, president of the Brazilian Coffee Institute, concedes that there is a limit to what people will pay for coffee. But he does not think a U.S. boycott will seriously cut into Brazil's coffee exports-or prices...
...most touching song is "Sam Stone," about a Vietnam vet who comes back a heroin addict. The gravel-voiced Prine is the man's child, singing: "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes," and the effect is chilling...
...participate in treatment programs like Gamblers Anonymous, but I was surprised that you chose not to discuss the huge number of compulsive gamblers like my father, who for some reason are unwilling or unable to seek help for themselves. Compulsive gambling is cruel and self-destructive, unless the addict makes a serious attempt to kick his habit...
Heroin Rain. Amsterdam has long been a mecca for addicts and dealers because of The Netherlands' wrist-tapping drug laws. But the mounting flow of "horse" through the city has become a narc's nightmare. Says G.J. Toorenaar, chief of Amsterdam's criminal investigation division: "It's raining heroin in The Netherlands." Worse, Europe's swelling addict population is now getting its dope from overseas Chinese gangs that police cannot understand or penetrate...