Word: acidizing
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...presidents, present or future. "If Ford doesn't listen to his wife, why should he listen to us?" Another suggested that the candidates appearance at this year's convention did not necessarily prove they are concerned about women's issues because their campaign schedule is pretty light now. "The acid test would be if they come next year at this time when there will be more competition for their time...
...take the clothes and the dyed hair so seriously. Honestly, it's just a joke. I'm affectionately parodying the rock-'n'-roll business by saying 'Here it is, let's all have a laugh and enjoy ourselves.' " There have been no acid-rock-style riots at his concerts. Somehow, right from the stage, he manages to get across to his audiences the message that he is just kidding. A small but serious point, however, underlies the fun. Elton says, "I didn't start enjoying life until...
Bartender's courage often came from marijuana, cocaine, acid, "whites" (amphetamines) and "reds" (Seconal). They are still easy to get and so are guns. "You can get any kind of a 'roscoe'-twelve-gauge shotguns, four-ten shotguns, 9-mm. pistols, 38s, .357-cal. Magnums. I remember one person outside the gang even had a flamethrower...
...enormous rock-strewn furrows, the land had no cover of vegetation, no wildlife-not even insects. With help from the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly "you have to jump...
Separated. Glenda Jackson, 39, acid-etched British movie actress (Women in Love, A Touch of Class); and Roy Hodges, 46, her stage-director husband; after 17 years of marriage, one son. Jackson not only announced her divorce plans but also vowed she would never remarry: "The last four years of our marriage have been horrible...