Word: contraband
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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False-bottomed crates containing sitars, incense, and 600 pounds of hash arrived at Logan Airport from Delhi on Feb. 11. Inspectors discovered the contraband, marked it with a fluorescent substance, repacked the crates, and allowed them to be forwarded to the addressee...
...died at 64 in France last year, after enjoying a muffled underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended in a shed and, finally, a hanged man whose death is as meaningless...