Word: dope
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...odds. Both achievements shine in a graceful sentence early in her story, as she explains her communion with unresponsive fish: "I had patience, the sort I suspect God has with people like me." Patience with her own demons came slowly. As a young woman, "a booze-sucking, pill-popping, dope-slamming druggie," she turned 18 in jail, jugged on a possession charge. She seems not to have known Grand-Papa Ernest well (and would say, no, no, not that Hemingway family, not me), though later she adored his younger brother, her great-uncle Leicester, and spent memorable days deep...
...Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly appears from time to time, only as a kind of bemused white-bread oddity wearing burgundy Rockport shoes, set down for a while among black dope dealers in New Haven, Conn.; or Chicano gangbangers in the Yakima Valley of Washington State; or piney-woods country people in East Texas; or, finally, among forlornly vicious white junior Nazis, feral and bored to death, in Antelope Valley, in northern Los Angeles County...
...caught fire. Those avant-garde youth movies emboldened a whole new pack of hip filmmakers to make their own iconoclastic films during the '70s: M*A*S*H, Taxi Driver, Five Easy Pieces and Paper Moon, among others. Biskind's history lesson also has its fair share of tantalizing dope and sex lore--at times the horrible stories from former spouses get so intense that the book might have been subtitled Revenge of the Ex-Wives...
...columnist has started avoiding the sophomoric C.S.G. like the plague, her complexion has become rosy and vibrant and her evenings chock full of sophistication. With glitsy night life options out there, Dr. K suggests you pass over local loser landmarks and head for the city in search of the dope...
...does it. No, not that. Nearly every-one on campus, with the exception of a few longhaired hippie wanna-bes, has a haircut now and then. Around the Square and in Boston, both men and women flock to the meccas of style in search of that sexy shag or dope ducktail--though men seemed less likely to 'fess up to their vanity...