Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack Reardon aims to provide a program that will satisfy the athletic appetites of all types, from the intercollegiate addict to a once-a-week jogger. And as athletic director, Reardon, from Day One, has been grappling with the problem of providing enough room for all athletes to pursue their pleasures...
When Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, appointed his Morehouse College roommate, A. Reginald Eaves, as the city's first black public safety commissioner in 1974, white critics were quick to charge cronyism. Eaves, a lawyer, didn't make matters easier by hiring a drug addict as his secretary, ordering an $800 love seat for his office and a luxury car for his travels around the city. But Eaves also proved a highly effective and popular official, cutting violent personal crimes by 10% and drastically curbing cases of police brutality...
...admitted newspaper addict, I would like to paraphrase the great Will Rogers and say that I never met a newspaper I didn't like...
...confirmed a dream addict as any of the tosspots in The Iceman Cometh, Con Melody is unlike them in having a family around him-a low-born wife Nora (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who unfalteringly loves him, his mettlesome daughter Sara, who is increasingly roused to hate. Yet each inspires in him only a more desolating sense of aloneness. In the costly family game of lies and consequences, Con bears more than a few resemblances to O'Casey's Paycock...
...That Jazz. With what sounds almost like resignation, he admits to being content. Friends say that Lucinda, a Puerto Rican who worked as a TV researcher, has brought a new stability to his life. After six weeks on a liquid protein diet, this former junk-food addict-"I still dream of Twinkies," he sighs-has even lost his famous baby fat. For the first time he is ready to play that "lean and hungry" hero-villain Cassius...