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Word: doped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never quite rids herself of the sense that dropping out is somehow reprehensible. She never reconciles herself to the notion that perhaps alternative lifestyles offer something worthwhile. Each of her characters ends in failure--the drop-out goes off to California, the pothead moves to an apartment with only dope as her objective, the sexual revolutionist will never acheive a normal heterosexual relationship, the communard leaves his commune in disgust at the problems he finds within it to apply to law school as a final rejection of interpersonal relationships. Decter seems to give up hope for the youth...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Midge Decter and the American Way | 7/29/1975 | See Source »

...crime in the ghetto area by fair means or foul. Late at night and early in the morning, members of the group walk the avenues and alleys of their neighborhood, meting out their own law-and-order to those they consider criminals. "Every now and then, folks dealing in dope get their doors kicked in and their shit messed up," says one member of the unit. "When we find someone doing wrong, we wear his ass out. A purse-snatcher might end up with two broken hands." The vigilantes, however, do not always escape unscathed. So far, two have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE CRIME WAVE | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

There was some unfinished business at the end of The French Connection. In fact, the unfinished business seemed just the point: that the French dope dealer so passionately pursued by the American cops could slip smoothly away through a massive stakeout and leave the country. The Frenchman was the source connection responsible for bringing in vast quantities of heroin from Marseille to New York. Frog One, Popeye Doyle called him, and the fact that he could get away nearly unruffled, meant simply that the law could never catch up with the main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leap Frog | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...forces are using him as a decoy to flush out Charnier (Fer nando Rey), the connection. The plan gets messy, however, when Charnier and his people sap Doyle in the street and drag him off to a seedy hotel, where for three long weeks they shoot him full of dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leap Frog | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

Restic was holing up with game films and assistant coaches this week, a difficult man for sportswriters to corner. So Matthews would have lunch with Restic at the Varsity Club today and get all the dope, then funnel it to reporters...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: Harvard's Real Radical Flak | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

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