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...Therapist Toby Long, 26, asked a pharmacist in Woodbridge, Va., a hamlet 25 miles south of Washington, D.C., to fill a prescription. The prescription called for 15 tablets of Quaalude, a potent sedative that is sometimes prescribed for insomnia and frequently abused because of its mythical properties as an aphrodisiac. By chance, a state pharmacy inspector, Kathleen Watt, was in the store and decided to verify Long's prescription. When she tried to call the doctor who had written it and found that the doctor's phone had been disconnected. Watt summoned police. The officers learned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Wrong Rx for Peter Bourne | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...three women and two men who deliver the numbers really deliver. Armelia McQueen is a husky-dusky sybil of song, Irene Cara wraps her voice in plaintive melancholy, and Nell Carter has a sensual verve that turns Cash for My Trash into a show-stopping aphrodisiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rent Party | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...Parsons table). Zakas' book, Furniture in 24 Hours (Macmillan; $10.95), a collection of his own designs and those of his most inventive pupils, has gone through six printings in little over a year. Its 128 pages are a potpourri of practical pieces that range from ad hoc aphrodisiac to pure zany. None of the designs are tacky, crude or dull, though some of the chairs may not be as easy on the derriere as they are on the eye. Each design is accompanied by diagrams, a photograph of the finished object and a meticulous list of the materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Almost Instant Furniture | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...endangered aphrodisiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Crackdown on a Fabled Root | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...centuries ginseng, a root often shaped vaguely like a human body, has been touted in Asia as an aphrodisiac, an aid to long life and a cure for everything from cancer to baldness. A small but growing number of Americans buy it in drug and health-food stores in the form of a gooey black liquid, tablets, tea and even ginseng soap. Almost all finished ginseng products sold here are imported from South Korea and other Asian countries that process the roots-but a good share of the roots themselves comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Crackdown on a Fabled Root | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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