Word: damone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Damon Runyon...
With picturesque characters like Sorrowful the Bookmaker, Philly the Weeper and Harry the Horse, Damon Runyon made gambling a rollicking game. Americans bet $32 billion with bookies every year, and an additional $17 billion on legal lotteries. Gamblers will always gamble, the states often say when they enter the racket, just before they start advertising for more gamblers. Speaking of myths, legends and lies, the Government's famous plan to supplant Harry the Horse in the bookie business should never have been taken seriously. Harry has always given the customers something that Lotto and OTB never will. Credit...
...responded by trashing their condo: microwaving his football, toasting his funny cigarettes in the VCR, dropping his gold watch in the Disposall. And now, she notes, "there's a giant blow-dryer in my pool." Well, a UFO actually, with three horny, color-coordinated aliens (Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans) itching to spend the night. Valerie had better listen to her cute boss Candy (Julie Brown): "Sit down. Relax. Have a mental margarita...
...squandered a $30,000 trust fund and several months' mortgage payments on outrageously expensive outfits: "I felt I had nothing to give anyone. So I gave a fashion show." Men, on the other hand, favor electronic gadgetry and tools, and picking up the tab at meals. Notes Janet Damon, a psychotherapist in New York and author of a new book, Shopaholics (Price Stern Sloan; $16.95): "They try to boost their self-esteem by buying an image of power...
Society encourages spending. Buying is a national pastime. Catalogs jam % mailboxes, goodies are hawked on television shopping channels. And credit is sinfully easy. Declares Damon: "Credit cards are to a shopaholic what a bottle is to an alcoholic." But buying provides only a short-lived high. Splurgers are assailed by anxiety and guilt, sometimes as the latest acquisitions are being rung up. Even as she handed her credit card to a salesclerk, recalls Judith, 40, a New York advertising executive, "my stomach would churn in knots." At home, items often go straight to the closet in their boxes, and clothing...