Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minicams, glimpses of real events and people. The cameras of That's Incredible! have dwelt on a man tied by his heels and hanging over a pool of sharks, a woman covered with bees, a miracle-working priest, a one-legged football star and a professor who pours acid over his hands. An NBC version of That's Incredible!, called Games People Play, has sent crews around the country to film folks engaged in such competitions as women's arm wrestling and belly bucking, in which a pair of beefy brawlers try to butt each other...
...about the times we live in, and hope that it can so successfully document the time that people will look to it ten or twenty years from now as the definitive film about the 1970s. His eye for detail is often marvelous--from waterbeds to thin ties, from dropping acid and the emotions that follow (Jeannette claims her hands have flown away while Phil screams his head weighs a thousand pounds) to well decorated lofts...
Mostly because Jagger is not only looking to get away from women but from women as metaphor. This nexus is made explicit on the next track, an acid blues number called "Down in the Hole." When you're down in the hole, there's nothing to protect you from the world of sin, sickness and insanity: "Looking for cover, you will find that there is nowhere nowhere nowaaaaargh to go." Jagger is talking about nothing less than the great primordial woman-hole'; in "Down in the Hole" he makes clear what he's been implying all along. Sex is both...
Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman have a fertile subject in Morrison, a reckless and unreconstructed mythomaniac who made the Doors into a band better known for their own notoriety than their reheated acid rock. Before he bloated his body with booze and fried his brain with various combinations of pharmacological excess, Morrison, the son of a rear admiral, was as stunning as a model. He was also the self-appointed model for the self-destructive rock idol...
...napalm-to-nuclear capability is the result of a Government-sponsored experiment in which her mother and father, both college students at the time, had volunteered to be injected with a powerful new hypnotic-hallucinogenic drug that is euphemistically known as Lot Six and is called dilysergic triune acid, obviously a by-blow of LSD. Vicky, the mother, develops telekinetic ability, manipulating objects without physical contact. Andy McGee comes off the couch with the power to dominate and direct -"push," in King's word-other people's minds. The drug has changed both parents' chromosomal structure...