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The most authoritative of the letters I received countering my explanation of “cold turkey” came from an M.D. who said that “the expression alludes to the `gooseflesh' or `duck bumps' that appear on the skin of persons withdrawing from addiction to opiates.
People who cross Lola's path are frozen in the frame, their futures telescoped in rapid-fire black-and-white snapshots: In one variation, a woman whom Lola bumps ends up destitute and prematurely dead; in another, she wins the lottery.
But I didn't really hurt myself--one always picks up a few bumps and scrapes around the house.
The New York Times leads with Russian prime minister candidate Viktor Chernomyrdin's no-duh on national television that, in the Times ' words, Russia "has entered a fiscal nosedive and that further political squabbling could lead to social chaos," a story that also makes the Los Angeles Times front, but which the Washington Post front bumps for pro football and model trains.
Pilots also take command in turbulence since an autopilot would waste fuel and possibly exacerbate the bumps by making many adjustments to keep the plane on a steady course.