Word: addictiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jong's best seller Fear of Flying (1973) became an emblem for the sexual revolution and women's liberation. With Any Woman's Blues, Jong is trying to put her mark on the '80s, when safe sex replaced free love and materialism, and addiction treatment became the ruling ethos. With no irony intended, she creates as her heroine a sex addict who goes to A.A. meetings, a free-spirited artist who uses a Lalique bowl to paint a still life and wears Zandra Rhodes...
...loosely based on Holiday's 1956 autobiography of the same title. In the movie, Diana Ross (who sings the songs in the film herself, blasphemy of the highest degree as it further robs the audience of the true essence of Lady Day) portrays Billie as a strung-out heroin addict who throws her talent away even though she has the support of a loving husband (Billy Dee Williams) and thousands of appreciative fans...
...awaiting dinner. The next day he never left his room. Recalled Laboa: "He talked very little, nodded a lot. He is impenetrable." Some diplomatic observers thought Noriega was showing classic signs of drug withdrawal. But a pharmacist who examined him in the nunciature concluded that he was not an addict. "Poor Noriega," said a diplomat posted to the Vatican in Rome. "No drugs, no booze, no sex -- and eating Vatican food...