Word: acidizing
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...feel less threatened by the comet, particularly because of its coincidence with Christmas. "I do not mean to suggest that another Christ will be born," wrote James Grayson Bolen, editor and publisher of the magazine Psychic, "but rather that an inner birth of Christ-like consciousness might occur." Imprisoned Acid Guru Timothy Leary, who was recently the beneficiary of a fund-raising "Comethon" in Santa Cruz, Calif., shares this optimism: "The Comet Starseed [Kohoutek] comes at the right time to return light to the planet earth." Adds Carl Schleicher, whose Washington-based Mankind Research Unlimited Inc. exploits mind control...
...exactly sure just what audience Siddhartha was trying to reach. Hesse's work was a big book on the campuses in the mid-sixties, but unless you have been taking acid every day for the last five years, suffer from terminal brain disease, and have felt an uncontrollable inclination lately to find out what "Millenium '73" is all about, Siddhartha is not likely to do much for your level of consciousness...
...Physicist Louise B. Young gives one possible reason: the discharge of high voltages into the air can produce ozone, a form of oxygen with three (rather than two) atoms in its molecular makeup, and oxides of nitrogen. Ozone can oxidize or "burn" healthy tissue, and nitrogen oxides form nitrous acid and one of the major components of smog. All of these might well affect people and plants that live near the lines...
...predictable cast of characters and they go through standard performances. For example, the anguish of decision: "Anchovies leave a fishy taste in my mouth," says one of a duo. "But pepperoni gives me acid," says the other. "Well, you don't come to Frank's for pizza and get one without anything on it," the first returns. "Well, all right. Mushrooms," they decide...
Rita's ophthalmologist husband (Martin Balsam) is stolid and bumbling, and she can rarely bear even his lightest touches. A son has drifted into homosexuality, a daughter tolerates Rita impatiently. Rita's relationship with her mother (etched in dry point with just the slightest drop of acid by Sylvia Sidney) has become a series of long, grumbly quarrels. Rita, in short, cannot connect properly or rewardingly with anyone she cares about...