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...blinding strobe lights flashed Alice strutted around the stage like Tiny Tim impersonating the Marquis de Sade. He stabbed a life-sized doll that drew a loud roar of approval. Then Alice allowed his pet boa constrictor to slither down his body and protrude its head between his legs. More roars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Schlock Rock's Godzilla | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...mostly nostalgia and trash. With a few exceptions, mostly British, very little innovation surfaced. The main contributions of the two supergroups left, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead, were Greatest Hit-type albums. And it took Alice Cooper to finally prove that a nihilistic bisexual wearing a boa constrictor and grotesque makeup could actually be boring...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Folk and Country: Now More Than Ever | 1/26/1973 | See Source »

...little man who lives all alone on a distant asteroid, of the journey that he takes from his asteroid to the Sahara Desert, and of the adventures he has there and elsewhere on the earth. His book is laced with quaint illustrations (by Saint Exupery himself) of a coa constrictor swallowing an elephant, baobab trees devouring a planet, and ant hill sized volcanoes...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: The Little Prince | 10/13/1972 | See Source »

...Carriers bring in heroin (or cocaine) in innumerable ingenious ways?including, on one occasion, stuffing it inside a live boa constrictor. A more common method, however, is for women airline passengers to travel to Miami with cocaine or heroin hidden in their girdles or in false-bottomed suitcases. Near Santiago there is a factory specializing in making suitcases with hidden compartments. The agents are catching more and more such carriers, in part through use of a secret "smuggler's profile"?a telltale behavior pattern apparently common to amateur smugglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARCOTICS: Search and Destroy--The War on Drugs | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

Divorced once from one wife, three times from another, Peckinpah is presently unmarried, restless, dissatisfied. Trying to characterize the man, a friend recalls that Peckinpah once kept a pet boa constrictor in his office. One day, the friend found Peckinpah staring at the cage, which contained the snake and a petrified white mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peckinpah: Primitive Horror | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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