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Weil's pot studies, like his Leary-Alpert expose, quickly made national news, owing in no small part to the kindly conclusions he reached about the contraband plant. "Marijuana did appear to raise heart rate," Weil says, "but it didn't seem to affect pupil size or blood sugar. More important, it didn't really impair performance, at least in people who had some experience with it. It seemed to be a rather mild intoxicant...
...many ways, "Star Wars" can be approached as a competent Western set sometime in the quite distant future. Go down the checklist of a classic Western's ingredients, and few items will be missing in the Lucas recipe: bounty hunters with no morals; sleazy smugglers who will handle any contraband--including political rebels--and who don't pronounce the final letter of an -ing verb; a barroom brawl with laser guns instead of fisticuffs; even a posse chase with spacecraft in the place of swift stallions...
...downsizing all too well. Profit, an intensely focused executive at Gracen & Gracen, the 15th largest company in the world, eliminates manpower with the sort of effectiveness AT&T's CEO Robert Allen might admire. When Profit wants someone out of the way, he might have him framed for selling contraband chemicals to Saudi terrorists or set him up for the murder of a subordinate who died of a heart attack--or both. And no outplacement counseling...
...were waiting tables or sunning at the beach, the 22-year-old senior was interviewing the Dalai Lama in his palace of exile in Dharmsala, India. She also spent time in Tibet, where she was arrested for posing as a tourist, but not before smuggling out four hours of contraband video. In Algeria she traveled with an armed escort, and in Iran she was threatened with detention. And she still got back in time for the start of classes in September...
Though the film plunges into the world of stage comedy, its first scene is played not to the roar of the crowd, but to the roar of the sea at Black-pool, England. In a contraband exchange gone awry, we meet the disturbed Jack Parker, played by the sparkling young Brit, Lee Evans. In an apparent outtake from a David Lynch feature, Parker is left alone in the sea with a wax egg and two severed feet. Unlike a Lynch flick, "Funny Bones" will let you in on the joke, if you wait for the punchline...