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The problem with Barfly is that it has a mission. This is to glorify the life of the Los Angeles beat poet Charles Bukowski, who wrote the semi-autobiographical script. Now Bukowski has a terrific literati-on-the-skids persona; more downwardly mobile than Kerouac or Burroughs, more degenerate than...
Some of these people would have fallen for a shaman, any fool who claimed, say, he could bend spoons with his mind. But Rinpoche was not a charlatan. By all accounts, he was brilliant, he was the real thing. The easiest conclusion to draw, looking from the outside in, is...
Doctors warn that it is not an aphrodisiac or a "sex pill." But a drug developed by Burroughs Wellcome to treat depression does have an interesting side effect: it increases sexual desire. Of 60 test subjects who took Wellbutrin at San Diego's Crenshaw Clinic, 63% had heightened libidos, a...
Racing against the clock, scientists develop a drug that is at least partly effective against AIDS, and the Food and Drug Administration okays it in record time. Instead of applause, the approval of Retrovir (formerly known as AZT) has provoked outrage in some quarters. On Wall Street last week, 300...
Ironically, the crash program for developing Retrovir may have contributed to its high price. To make the drug available as quickly as possible, "we have literally turned our company upside down," said Burroughs Wellcome Vice President Thomas Kennedy at a press conference last week. The company says it takes seven...