Word: dope
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...Europe is enjoying itself. O.K., in late July, it always does. The weekend I was in Paris, an estimated 500,000 kids descended on Berlin for the annual Love Parade, a carnival of techno music, dope and sex. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of families started their treks from the damp north of the Continent to their vacation homes in the warm south. But even when the sun isn't shining, Europeans seem to be throwing themselves into fun and festivity with unprecedented zeal. Each weekend, central London is one great bacchanal. Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were...
...with his wife and children, and it was dark, and they were in the bedroom watching TV, and there was this loud banging on the side of their mobile home. The defendant felt there was evidence that these were people trying to break into his trailer and steal his dope and harm his family...
...have one word for you,” he says. “Dope. That was dope...
DIED. JACK GELBER, 71, influential playwright whose 1959 work The Connection was a milestone of stage experimentation; of a form of blood cancer; in New York City. With its raw depiction of a world of dope addicts and its blurring of the line between stage life and real life, The Connection put off many critics ("A farrago of dirt"--the New York Times), but helped pave the way for more innovations in style and subject matter...
...dope knows, the real problem is misogyny—a big word for the ed page, and a hard one to spell. Unlike beer, misogyny is something some people can’t see, and most would prefer not to look for. How can you create a plan to root out something of which there’s a little lurking in every soul? If you thought a dry campus was an impossible goal, try a misogyny-free one. It’s needless to say which I’d prefer, since the choice isn’t likely...