Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Americans are falling back on a devil theory of sorts, or at least some sinister force, to explain the nation's problems, or simply personalizing problems with a vengeance. Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard notes: "Devils are being found in the oil companies, the presidency and others to whom blame can be assigned...
...Rock, the ultimate roost for a tougher kind of fowl -the jailbird. Alcatraz was decommissioned as a prison in 1970 and is now part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. Since it was opened to the public by the National Park Service last October, the U.S. equivalent of Devil's Island has become San Francisco's biggest tourist attraction...
...name it, hash, coke, heroin, speed, mesc, psylocybin, LSD, DMT. Once, on sunshine, she just danced in this slow circle around the room with this scary grin on her face, and then suddenly grabbed a pair of scissors and starts jabbing at her hair screaming about how the devil was inside...
...some point that spring the devil in Kimberly Rath's high began to bother her. The highs were black most often. And she latched on to another dream that spring, this one of the Natural Life, of life on a farm with time and fresh air and smal pleasures. She talked, tiresomely so, Harley says, of the "simple things, man, the simple things, you've just got to cut out all the crap, man, get down to where your soul...
GETTY: Things burst and the devil drives. We have to cut our coats according to our cloth. If we haven't enough energy, we'll have to get along on what...