Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington's abundant cherries and apples, is likely to be minor. Alfred Halvorson, a soil expert at Washington State University, believes farmers will lose no more crops than they would to a "very heavy dust storm." Some scientists feared at first that the ash might produce a devastating acid rain, but tests showed that the dust is about as acid as orange juice. The ash contains no more sulfur than ordinary rainwater does...
...armed camp," is a five-room bungalow. Sharon's biggest mistake seems to have been an abiding loyalty to her husband, the legendary Sonny Barger. Sonny, now 41, led the Angels through the glory days of the '60s: fighting in bars, terrorizing small towns, dropping acid with Ken Kesey, assaulting antiwar demonstrators. He was their leader during the Altamont rock concert killing. Sonny spent four years of the '70s in prison on a drug conviction and is the star defendant of the current case. "My Sonny has been a member 23 years this month," says Sharon...
...solemn, mild-mannered reporter by writing pieces that would have turned Clark Kent's blue hair white. As a Rolling Stone correspondent and in his Fear and Loathing books, he chronicled his lavatory run-ins with Richard Nixon and George McGovern and his experiences with grass, mescaline, acid, cocaine, uppers, downers, Wild Duck, Budweiser and ether. In between trips, he produced some of the most incisive perceptions of the sixties and early seventies in print. Irreverent, volatile, and almost always stoned out of his mind, Thompson couldn't conveniently be categorized as a hippie or a freak; he was just...
...taunting, like a child at the zoo; the man in the cage white-hot with anger, swinging and screaming. Finally, he stops, and reaches to his side for a small black can, a stream of mace. Boltcutters waving at his side, the protestor stumbles away in search of boric acid...
This is a play of sweet and sour memories: 21 years of shared experiences between Emily (Barbara Feldon) and Ralph Michaelson (Laurence Luckinbill). They exchange acid legal briefs about the past, his ten years of alcoholism, her refrigerated emotions. He is an ad man glad to land a new account; she gnawingly wants to settle an old account. Their reminiscences grow tender as they conjure up growing children and the death of a toddler son. In a sudden access of intimacy, past desire becomes present lovemaking - yet the play's defect is that Emily and Ralph seem...