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Word: acidic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undervalued year after year," says Roddy McDowall, who starred with her in Lord Love a Duck, one of her less awful movies. As a drum majorette in Pretty Poison, a fine but little-publicized 1968 film, she mixed innocence with evil to chilling effect, etching her character with acid and honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Survival of Tuesday | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...perturbation! But don't worry too much about Tuesday. She still goes on an occasional bender, and talks openly about drugs. "I enjoy getting high on anything," she says. "No, not anything. Not drugs like acid. The pot I smoke has to be very good quality, and I love it. It gives you a terrific feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Survival of Tuesday | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...urbanite who reads the Daily News with chortling masochism and controls his paranoia by making Obscene statements. His message (and that of the film made from his comic books): the world isn't really so screwed up, since everyone's just in it for a taste of ass and acid, so why are we all anxious...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Fritz Don't Profess Any Graces | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

...tried farming and cutting timber, but acid from strip mining had all but ruined the land. So he began selling his corn liquor to the whisky runners. He now has two basic markets: those counties in Kentucky that have elected to remain dry, and the Kentucky-bred laborers in Cincinnati, Louisville and even Chicago who have never lost their taste for homemade corn. He no longer tries to run his whisky. "Back in '47," he recalled, "I was driving this Army truck and I smacked broadside into a state cop with three gallons under my seat. He took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Making Moonshine in Kentucky | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Spiked Juice. Back in the lunar module for another rest period, the astronauts exchanged notes, unaware that their voices were being picked up by a live mike. "I got the farts again, Charlie," Young was heard to say. "I think it's acid in the stomach." He blamed it on the large doses of potassium-spiked orange juice prescribed by doctors to counteract the effects of weightlessness (see MEDICINE). The strange potion did not seem to bother him on the second moon walk, when the astronauts took more core samples, picked up rocks, and pushed over a large boulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Adventure at Descartes | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

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