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Word: acids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish-fulfillment. Nicholson sends the items on the table, amber water glasses, placements, and all, crashing toward the floor, there is a jump cut, and we're on the road again. It's a curious, but persistent form of emotional poverty, one which eats at the movie like acid on celluloid...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The New York Film Festival Twelve Nights in a Dark Room: You Can't Always Get What You Want | 9/29/1970 | See Source »

...Resist spiritually; stay high . . . praise God . . . love life . . . blow the mechanical mind with acid . . . does them . . . dose them . . . does them...

Author: By Timothy Leary, | Title: Leary's Communique | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

Incredible Prescience. Pompidou clearly emerges as the Good Guy to De Gaulle's Bad Guy. Through his quotes, De Gaulle appears to be acid-tongued, vengeful and often petty. Yet he also emerges as a man with an obviously brilliant political mind. Almost three weeks before the Six-Day War in 1967, he informed a Cabinet meeting that he was about to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who was then in Paris. The general, with almost incredible prescience, told his ministers that he planned to tell Eban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Remembrances of Things Past | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

Grace Slick, throaty lead singer of the acid-rock group Jefferson Airplane, is expecting. According to the latest issue of Rolling Stone, her husband Jerry doesn't know anything about it because he's not the father. Guitarist Paul Kantner, another Airplane, is. Grace admits that she is "a little worried, what with all the weird drugs we've been taking." Anyway, the happy parents-to-be have already picked a name for the child-God. God Slick. Due in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 14, 1970 | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...entrepreneurs started negotiations last summer with a display of toothy smiles. But as Steinberg pressed for more financial information and disliked what he learned, the smiles turned to snarls. The resulting battle has become one of the longest, most acid and most entertaining in British business history. Steinberg's charges and Maxwell's countercharges have frequently enlivened prime-time television. Even the Board of Trade, Britain's overseer of commercial practices, is investigating the controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Missing Millions | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

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