Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back. "Yeah," he says, not embarrassed, smiling. "I was smoking in the rest room on the bus. When I came out everyone asked me if I had some more, but that was all I had. "I've seen rednecks brown-bagging in the back seat before, but never any dope on a bus. I wonder: did Mrs. Ellis Smell it. Does she even know what it smells like? "For a while in Ann Arbor the penalty for dope was a $5 fine. People smoke it in public, in the movies all the time...
...makers." I believe that the same audiences no longer care about the music I no longer enjoy rock concerts and, asked the question. "What's killing rock?" will answer, "audiences." Too many people get hopelessly stoned an hour before show time; too many people spend concerts buying or selling dope, or smoking it, or dropping it, and generally behaving like morons. Thus the clown who, having lost his shirt after left Beck's excellent show at the Orpheum, stood in the aisle, wavering demanding an encore. He finally took off his shoe and starting beating on his seat with...
...worker, tough and uncompromising. They still grease down here; both the fathers and sons; flat-tops with fenders, massive Presley waves, or just a straight comb back. They drag race; '65 Chevies and second-hand Firebirds instead of the old '57 Chevy. They take pills and smoke a little dope and a few drop acid; but most of all they drink. They drink in bars or in alleys; beer after beer; shaking it hard to get a better lift. They wear Italian cut shoes and gaudy shirts and tight pants and they play basketball in Converse All-Stars with purple...
...heroic pose. A long while ago the pose was of youthful optimism, with graduation speakers inanely observing that "Commencement is not just an end--it is a beginning." In fact, Commencement is just an end. Recently, the pose has been that of the anti-hero, young rebels wreathed in dope fumes end with defusions as grand as ever. Since the smoke cleared, seniors have had hard times taking themselves too seriously. But complimenting your own class on its unpretentiousness is like bragging about your humility...
...project failed, however, when a student mail-room employee opened his own dope-laced letter and reported it to authorities. Most of the remainder was confiscated by officials...