Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intense Perception. If grass is the staple of hippiedom, then lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is its caviar. Derived from a parasitic fungus that grows on rye, lysergic acid is mixed with volatile diethylamine (used in vulcanizing rubber), then frozen; the resulting LSD is extracted by using chloroform or benzine for fractional distillation, or else by means of a simple vacuum evaporator. Now available in pill form, or else as a soluble crystalline powder (the liquid-dunked sugar cubes of yesteryear are out), LSD produces an eight-to-twelve-hour trip highlighted by profound changes in thought, mood and activity. Colors...
...grimy floor is overlaid with green sawdust and the cramped cooking area is about as immaculate. Elsie's is uncomfortable. When there are more than about nine people, you have to eat standing up. But Elsie's has good food at low prices. Spectacular food. Creme cheese and caviar sandwiches. Chopped liver. Beer Wurst. Knackwurst, Bratwurst. Wurst Salad. Just plain Wurst. Knackwurst, Bavarian oxtail soup. Danish Cakes. Cheese cake. The fast, efficient members of the counter gang have the dedicated air of European innkeepers. People who patronize Elsie's are serious about eating and only the uncouth order hamburgers. They...
...evening, after a mild Scotch, he eats a solitary dinner, wishing she were there with him to enjoy the Russian caviar and the really excellent Burgundy. Later, after reading a few chapters of Ian Fleming, he glances at his Swiss watch and realizes it is time for bed. Who needs technology...
Joanie Phoanie is a sight. She has a roller coaster of a nose, unraveled hair, and sandal straps that look as if they're devouring her legs. She douses herself with deodorant, wolfs down caviar in front of famished children. She sings of brotherhood to incite student riots...
Slightly larger than the Digest in size, Sputnik contains many pages of color reproductions. The monthly is also chock full of advertisements for Soviet products ranging from caviar to hand-woven rugs to Moskvich automobiles, and it welcomes advertising from abroad. All in all, Sputnik is an uninhibited pitch to U.S. tourists to come and spend their money in Russia...