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...clubs that have sprung up around the state in response to the law--places where people in need can get a steady supply of the drug--are strictly monitoring their customers. The Santa Clara County Medical Cannabis Center dispenses a pound of marijuana a week from its discreet, white-walled suite in a business complex. When one would-be customer proffered a doctor's recommendation that he had allegedly forged, co-founder Peter Baez called the police and later went to court to help press charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO HIGH IN CALIFORNIA? | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...around monkfish and red wine (not necessarily together, though) and isn't afraid to share her personal opinion on Yucca con Mojo when asked. She arrives at the table bearing crusty bread with butter and small ramekins of salt and black peppercorns and refills the water glasses frequently. Discreet is the name of the game here--one second your water has dipped below the gulp mark and the next, voila, it's replenished without a bit of interruption to the conversation or jostling of an elbow. The waiters and waitresses at Henri's seem to have mastered...

Author: By Sarah A. Knight, | Title: Cuban Revolution a la Henri | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...mood is one of growing, if discreet, discontent. Baghdad residents have noticed fewer portraits of Saddam around town. In one area, Iraqis claimed that officials took down his pictures after citizens smeared them with excrement. Iraqis have clearly had enough of the hardships caused by economic sanctions, and Saddam's putting all the blame on the U.S. is wearing thin. Iraqis have seen their livelihood collapse and their savings eroded by inflation. "We've sold our refrigerator, our sitting-room chairs, our beds," said a young man in a juice shop. "Now my family is sleeping on the floor." Nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: CALM AND DESPAIR IN BAGHDAD | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

With regards to Gore, "Our first goal is to be complete and our second goal is to be discreet," Sloan said...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tight Security Planned For Visits | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...gore, the blood and the tragedy in order to reconstruct the destroyed face and "exploded head" of the victim, so his mother's "dreams of her baby / in tuxedoed satin" can be fulfilled. Libert and Parker intersperse video of Smith's recitation of the poem with shadowy figures, discreet images of hands molding flesh onto the skull underneath and childhood playground scenes almost ominous in their innocence...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meshing Text and Performance | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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