Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that I know what's good for girls all the time--I guess I'm a male chauvinist pig from way back. But I think that money is in the wrong place. That kid from Riverside who died last summer could just as easily been a girl: dope doesn't care. If it's a hotshot, you're going. Black people used to cut their skins and put bones in their noses. That was part of their culture even if it wasn't what white people approved of. In my mind, that cosmetology program is assimilation to white culture...
...records on the island, offers him $20 for his song-take it or leave it. Too proud at first to accept, Ivan becomes desperate enough to pocket the money and wait around to become famous. When that does not happen, Ivan's recourse is to become a dope dealer and, almost by accident, a desperado. This means of escape turns out to be a true means to an end. It kills him and it makes him famous, lets him live out his fantasies of movie heroism with childish pleasure and flamboyance until he dies, gun in hand...
...week. Their distributors can earn $3,800, and the lowly pusher, often an addict, gets about $ 125 and all the smack he can shoot-about $900 worth a week at current prices. Before he was jailed, one young black hustler, beginning from scratch five years ago, built up a dope-peddling business in Boston that employed 20 people and grossed $2.5 million a year...
What numbs the outside is the tedious, hurry-and-then-wait routine of military processing. The soldiers must have their urine analyzed, their baggage searched by M.P.s and sniffed by dope-attuned dogs, and their bodies frisked before they are finally herded into Waiting Room A or Waiting Room B. There they sit restlessly on orange plastic chairs, staring at travel posters, talking little, some playing hearts, gin rummy or chess until flight time is finally announced...
OVERFOND OF THE PAST, he brings confused eyes to the present, and he stretches the contrast between to ludicrous dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy blue-jeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is a modern version of Aunt Augusta stripped of the illusions. She faces facts with the same irresponsible gaiety in which Aunt Augusta...