Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marijuana users get little or no reaction the first time, and greater highs later? The phenomenon may represent, Weil and his colleagues suggest, a strange case of "reverse tolerance." But, as with many other things about marijuana, they cannot be sure...
...minute visits that British diplomats have been allowed to pay him in 17 months, he complained of chest pains, reported that a Communist doctor conceded that he may have bronchitis-but would not do much about it. Guards deliver the People's Daily even though Grey cannot read Chinese. He grows weary of the Peking Review, an English-language Maoist propaganda magazine. He has a library in his upstairs quarters, but is not allowed to go there; if he wants a book, he must request it by exact title, word for word. He is tormented by the fact that...
Shopkeepers estimate that half of the thieves are teenagers. They often raid stores in gangs of ten or more: one kid grabs the loot, and it is then swiftly passed from one to another until the store detectives cannot tell, as one put it, "What's what or who's who." Some San Francisco store owners, particularly those in the immediate vicinity of high schools, have become so intimidated by the kids that they close their doors during lunch and when students are going to or from school...
Quinn is surprisingly effective at making Conchis a cross between Picasso and a monkey, as he was in the novel. In a part that calls for relentless coyness, Candice Bergen cannot be said to act, but her beauty is so compelling that the male audience, like Orpheus, can hardly be blamed for forsaking the future for a backward glance...
Metatheatrical Master. Death is not all that is false. Conchis can re-create portions of his life at will. Nazi soldiers emerge from the forest; Greek villagers dead for over 20 years reappear; Urfe's girl (Anna Karina), a suicide, comes to life. Angry and bewildered, Urfe cannot penetrate his host's series of masques. Is Conchis a wizard who can make people materialize from his mind? Is he only a psychiatrist, trying to bring Lily back to sanity by enacting her fantasies in life? Is he a master of metatheater, in which everyone must play a part...