Word: acids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because Horowitz understands how every valve, scope and gadget in the lab works, he doesn't like to take chances. He remembers the way some of the lessons were learned. There was the explosion that splattered him with acid when he was very young, and tried some experiments with batteries. And there was a severe shock in a lab several years ago, when a powerful charge ran in a complete circuit from one arm to the other, passing through his heart. He was almost knocked unconscious, but his first thoughts were, "What went wrong?" He quickly realized that there were...
...SOLDIERS by Robert Stone. An epitaph for the late 1960s etched in acid, this brilliantly bleak novel traces three muddled Americans and a stash of Vietnamese heroin through the counterculture rubble of California...
...soused camel's hair as his paintbrush hit the canvas propped on its tripod probably wouldn't pull a crowd. Unlike musicians or actors, someone who makes strictly visual art tends to go at it alone. It is hard to concoct a performance with audience appeal while etching acid into copper plate, sculpting clay--or daubing paint on canvas. But in the long run, interaction with an audience is just as important to the visual artist as it is to a performer. Unfortunately, many of Harvard's student artists don't experience that kind of interaction...
...Michel Piccoli) and end up in his bed. Director Girod handles the sexual passages with a cool discretion that contrasts oddly with the hot pornographic spirit he brings to the trio's murderous doings. The film's gruesome centerpiece is a bloodbath double murder, followed by an acid bath of several days' duration to dispose of the corpses. A few critics have suggested that Le Trio Infernal is supposed to be a black comedy, but the length and the detailing that Girod lavishes on this sequence dissolve that conceit more quickly than the acid turns the victims...
...leadership nor had he lobbied old colleagues for his vetoes. "If the President expects to have his vetoes sustained, he has to make a definite case for them," said House G.O.P. Leader John Rhodes. From the other side of the aisle, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill was more acid: "Since the day he commuted Nixon, he hasn't done anything right...