Word: acidizing
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...long since taken to the hills to the North or the plains of New Mexico, and the streets of the Haight and Sunset Boulevard lay littered with the last pock-marked remains of hippie. Hippie was now the 95-lb. speed freak on the corner who hustled bad acid and talked non-stop about getting it all together "in a commune somewhere." Hippie began to dress in a black cape, wearing a Mephistophiles beard and an upside-down crucifix, cultivating a rap of strange mumbo-jumbo, anywhere from the teachings of the English satanist Aleister Crowley to the fascist meanderings...
There were no rules. But there was a weakness: from the standpoint of vulnerability the flower movement was like a valley of thousands of plump white rabbits surrounded by wounded coyotes. Sure the 'leaders' were tough, some of them geniuses and great poets. But the acid-dropping middle-class children from Des Moines were rabbits...
...their ever-ready acid bath, the gossiphilic editors of Women's Wear Daily have pulled a new version of the venerable In-and-Out game to stir up the animals in Manhattan's social zoo. The key people in New York, whispers WWD, are the "Cat Pack." When its members walk into a room, "there's more than a ripple. There's a wave. They know everything about what's going on. And when they meet, there's that secret kiss on each cheek." Money and fame are not enough to make...
Wollin and Ericson mixed the molecules of gases recently detected in the far reaches of space - ammonia, methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid - in various combinations. Then, keeping the gases completely free of water, the scientists exposed them to ultraviolet radiation and found that they combined to produce small quantities of some of the amino acids essential to life. Says Wollin: "Perhaps liquid ammonia, with its physical and chemical properties so similar to water, could serve as a solvent medium for waterless life...
...sure of is that he should not have taken LSD: "It's bad news; it really is . . . I think what acid does is it intensifies everything, my feelings about myself. I was screwed up enough without taking acid. Probably just buried me deeper in my hole than I was before I started tripping...