Word: doped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free world, much of which ends up in the U.S. To combat the traffic in narcotics, the bureau's agents work under cover, infiltrate gangs, even act as couriers between criminals. Often they have to shoot it out with narcotics racketeers. They have to watch for dope in some of the most unlikely places-hidden in compartments of imported cars, in ice bags, cans of bean sprouts, jewelry cases, the brassieres of airline hostesses. Only last week, narcotics cops in Manhattan arrested a woman pusher who was sitting on a park bench, rocking her baby in a carriage. Under...
...U.C.L.A. ("I wanted to be Brenda Starr") when, as part of a course in playwriting, she was required to take part in a college show. She went on, got a houseful of laughs, then and there decided to switch her major. Says Carol: "It's kind of like dope. You get hooked...
...Director Sidney Lumet (Twelve Angry Men) adhere to the original that only eleven pages of the text were cut to get the film down to three hours. The play, a long slice of O'Neill self-fictionalized autobiography, deals with the bedeviled Tyrone family-the mother a pitiful dope addict, the father a stingy sot, the younger son a tuberculosis victim, and the elder son a cynical lush...
...into their drama. This is a revolutionary American film, the first to use the techniques discovered by Europe's "new wave." The producers of The Connection are currently fighting censorship by the New York State Board of Regents; ironically, in a film that deals graphically with such themes as dope addiction and homosexuality, the Board of Regents objects only to the use of the word "shit," which appears twenty-eight times (Variety counted). When Ephraim London, who represents the producers, wins his court fight (he says he will take his case to the Supreme Court if necessary), the Board...
...picture, De Sica will direct Sophia in a loose adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. The screenplay has perhaps the darkest plot that has ever thickened. A young German (Max Schell) feels so guilty about his part in the war that he becomes a dope addict. Various women try to cure him with love, first his sister, then his sister-in-law (Sophia Loren), but not even that much sex can help him. He has a fight with his ex-Nazi father (Fredric March), then a reconciliation. Then both men commit suicide...