Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon after Shah Abbas ascended the throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style throughout his long life, in the face of many of his contemporaries's adoption of a European manner. Muhammad Zaman, for example, based his Return...
DETROIT. Coleman Alexander Young's first speech as mayor was blunt and to the point. Squinting into the bright glare of TV lights in the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium, he declared: "I issue an open warning right now to all dope pushers, to all rip-off artists, to all muggers: It's time to leave Detroit. I don't give a damn if they are black or white, or if they wear Super Fly suits or blue uniforms with silver badges: Hit the road...
...last year had a record 271 murders, and Jackson talks about crime as a problem much the way that Coleman Young does. "This city has never seen the kind of offensive we are going to mount against drugs, criminality and homicide," he pledged last week. "Those who are in dope in this city had better pack their bags...
...inside information on teams he uses a network of underground informants called "readers," who have contacts with coaches, players, owners, even locker-room attendants. Their job is to collect material about players' physical conditions, troubles with girl friends or wives, and other dicey dope. These "friends," as Martin calls them, funnel their findings to Las Vegas several times a week. This is an expensive intelligence operation...
...President Richard M. Nixon, sentenced to 55 years in prison for conspiracy to commit burglary, income tax evasion, obstruction of justice, and contempt of Congress, tells an anxious nation how he plans to spend his time in jail. "I really don't know. Maybe I'll smoke a little dope, listen to some Allman Brothers, read Kahlil Gibran," the ex-president muses...