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...Santiago to a Cuban army veterinarian, he was arrested as a teenager in the 1950s for denouncing dictator Fulgencio Batista on the radio. He fled to Miami in 1960, fearing he would be arrested again, this time for openly defying Castro. He worked as a dishwasher, shoe salesman and milkman in Little Havana while editing an anti-Castro paper funded by Jose Bosch, the Bacardi rum magnate. Mas signed on with the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and once tried to outfit a B-26 aircraft with bombs to hit Cuba's oil refineries...
Others argue that solid evidence is accumulating in support of the addiction hypothesis. Psychologist Harvey Milkman and chemist Stanley Sunderwirth, authors of the book Craving for Ecstasy: The Consciousness and Chemistry of Escape, point out that sexual arousal triggers an increase in the release of certain neurotransmitters in the brain in much the same way that the taking of mood-altering drugs does. It is possible that sex addicts try to get the high that results from those chemicals...
...President Bush will tell us that it was all a big, funny joke. Dan Quayle is really the White House newspaper boy and resident milkman...
...searching for the log cabin that can convey their just-folks humble heritage. The self-made rhetoric all blurs together as Dukakis talks of his immigrant parents, Dole recalls "my father ran a cream-and-egg station," and Gephardt always mentions that he is the son of a milkman. Although they are the well-born disadvantaged in such a contest, du Pont harks back to his "scraggly" French immigrant forefathers (who arrived in 1799), and Bush points out that he left the comforts of Connecticut as a young man to make it on his own as a Texas wildcatter...
...unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up. If this is the heartland, it is as seen by Freud: the husband lusts after the girl and fantasizes about her as the virtuous virgin that his wife was not; the wife acts kittenish even with the milkman; the girl selects lovers, then discards them. Middle age is portrayed as a time of aching sexual frustration, made more acute by the close-at-hand vision of youth. Some of Inge's kitchen-sink exposition seems dated and clumsy in its mix of naturalism and artifice. But Sheba remains...