Word: addicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cross-examiner, Foreman made hash of the state's witnesses-a clutch of convicts and others who told in gutter argot of assorted sexual stunts that they said Mel boasted of performing with Candy. Sex, the defense scoffed, does not prove murder. After one Texas thief and drug addict testified that Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked...
There was little question that Narcotics Addict Charles Freeman had actually been pushing heroin. And it was hardly surprising that the court found him guilty-despite the defense contention that Freeman may have known that what he was doing was wrong, but had neither the capacity nor the will to be responsible for his acts. The judge was simply following a century-old precedent; he was applying the M'Naghten Rule, which holds that a man may be judged not responsible or insane only if he did not know what he was doing, or did not know that what...
...Sade is a fascinating figure; Edmund Wilson and Simone de Beauvoir have written studies on him, and the London-Broadway hit Marat/ Sade, as well as a new paperback edition of his writings, testifies to renewed public interest. But it is also true that he is the compulsive addict of every conceivable extremity within the technical possibilities of the human sexual apparatus. What he could not do he dreamed, and what he dreamed, he wrote. His letters can be analyzed in seven deeply felt but wonderfully inconsistent categories: 1) he didn't do it (he had been accused...
...nether world of the narcotics addict, a man's only loyalty is to himself. Richard Robles, a sallow-faced, 22-year-old junkie, learned that lesson too late last week when a Manhattan jury found him guilty of the sadistic murders of Career Girls Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert in August 1963. The most convincing evidence against Robles was provided by his two best friends, fellow addicts both...
Though crudely plotted, the movie offers some bruising glimpses of the drug addict's world. Director Mitchell turns his camera into streets alive with the ruthless, luckless desperation of hung-up types waiting to score. There is powerful understatement in an eerily casual police raid on a pad full of bleary, turned-on junkies, or in Sánchez' dry heaves when he goes to collect a shipment of "stuff" and finds it sharing a coffin with a stiff. Heroína is not much fun to sit through, but the best of it throws a cold clear...