Word: lighters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cocaine. It is customarily smoked in a small glass water pipe, often filled with rum instead of water. The bowl is usually fitted with several thicknesses of fine steel mesh so that the precious drips of melting coke are fully burned. A butane torch may be used, although a lighter or plain matches will do, to apply steady heat on the pipe's bowl and vaporize the free-base. (Accidents, not surprisingly, are common. Comedian Richard Pryor nearly died in 1980 in a mishap at the end of a free-basing binge: his rum spilled, ignited...
...Julieann had been away from home only a few hours when, at night in a driving rainstorm, she jumped out of her pen and over perhaps a dozen fences, crossed swamps and pastures and even swam across the Econlockhatchee River. Last Monday at dusk, 100 Ibs. lighter, she arrived back at Kraftsow's. "An incredible journey," says Kraftsow...
...seen by tens of millions of Americans on the nightly news shows of CBS, NBC and ABC. Andrews came up to the camera crew. They stalled him, briefly, then set the camera rolling as he struck a match and touched it to his chest, which he had doused with lighter fluid. The match went out. He touched another match to his leg. That too went out. He stumbled a few steps toward the lighter fluid, splashed more on, returned to the camera, squatted and touched another match to his left thigh. A tiny glow appeared, then spread...
...then sent two cameramen to the square. At 11:10 p.m. the cameramen found Andrews. They were certain, they said later, that police were hiding somewhere in the small square, and would intervene. So they started to film, watching from a few yards as Andrews doused himself with lighter fluid and fumbled with matches. A flame started up on his blue jeans. The cameras rolled. The men watched. The flame spread across the victim's leg. The men continued to film...
...first hour, called Daybreak, was predominantly devoted to a rapid-fire rendition of major news stories. The next 2¼ hr., titled Good Morning Britain, presented by Frost and the sloe-eyed former Independent Television News (ITN) newscaster Anna Ford, featured interviews averaging five minutes each and lighter fare. The first week showed Frost, cheeky and condescending as usual, performing such tasks as reading bloopers from the morning papers. Frost and Ford will also be hosts on a semiregular feature called Through the Keyhole, in which a probing TV-am reporter rummages around the home of a celebrity, psychoanalyzing...