Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feinstein's newest entry, A Season Inside, once again deals with the theme he knows so well: college basketball. Feinstein is a hoop addict, a writer who could spend the rest of his life locked up in UCLA's Pauley Pavillion watching Kansas' Danny Manning posting up against North Carolina's J.R. Reid, or Arizona's Steve Kerr swishing three-pointers from outside...
...human immunodeficiency virus. Tina's doctors have lately totted up her symptoms and moved her into the category called AIDS-related complex, or ARC. Bonnie takes this as a hopeful sign: the child has a whole stage to go before full-blown AIDS. Tina's birth mother, a drug addict with AIDS, is less optimistic. She phoned not long ago and remarked, "Tina's going...
WHITE, who is a lawyer in California and the author of Human Debris: The Industrial Worker in America, begins Merchants of Death with details from his own life as a Camel addict. He reveals that he was drawn to smoking by peer pressure and the conviction that the habit was considered to be a "cool" thing...
...same drug pusher whom Baba beats is, in fact, a good friend of Krishna's. Raghubir Yadav plays Chillum, the strung-out ganja addict and pusher, with frenzied exuberance, red-eyed and real. When the drug addict is given the boot by Baba, Krishna helps him, unwittingly providing the money for the fix that kills his friend...
...Dukakis growled, "Friends, this is garbage. This is political garbage. This isn't worthy of a political campaign." All during the week he spoke with feeling about two crime victims he knew well: his father, a doctor, who was once bound, gagged and beaten in his office by an addict looking for drugs, and his brother Stelian, killed by a hit-and-run driver. "I know something about crime," he said. "I don't need any lectures from George Bush on the subject...