Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escape at all--the Man won't let such a good seller go, and the Man happens to be also the Deputy Police Commissioner-Priest must use his wits and restrain his brawn, come out with a plan that can trap even the highest head on the dope trade totem pole sans direct violence. He wins because of his intelligence, and because he is right--of all the blacks who were sucked into illicit trade, at least one man has to break the chain if it is ever to be stopped...
...popular black hero and not to rip apart Harlem or the cocaine trade directly, one scene is so incisively written and acted with such conviction that it almost transcends its context to make a sad and angry statement on the black condition. Priest needs thirty keys of dope, an unprecedented figure for a pusher, in order to enable him to act on his first plan--simply to sell enough and get out. With his more cynical partner Eddie, Priest goes to the old friend who got him started on the trade and is now himself retired, running a swank Harlem...
...novel has been a reporter, an on-camera TV newsman and an actor whose best-known performances were as Tarzan and a cowpoke on a foolish series called Six Guns Across Texas. John Lee Wallace, fed up with Hollywood, returns home to Dallas, leaving a vapor trail of dope and alcohol. He and his best buddy Buster plan to make "one good, true, fair thing"-a documentary film about the real Texas. The time is the late summer...
...this descent into hell. But Author Shrake, who has kept his distance from John Lee throughout most of the book, ends by indulging in a little unnecessary hero worship. After Nov. 22, the story shifts to Acapulco, where John Lee and his girl get mixed up in a gunrunning, dope-smuggling scheme that is crazily uncoordinated with the Texas part of the book. The nightmare dwindles down to a good-old boy's yarn that got out of hand, and a novel that first threatens to explode fizzles out like a firecracker tossed into a puddle.-Jay Cocks
...Gene Hackman) and his sultry wife Clarabelle (Angel Tompkins), a former Chicago model. Mary Ann auctions cattle and keeps the buyers happy by filling cowpens with stoned-out, naked teen-age girls, who are also up for sale. "I give this country what it wants," Mary Ann gloats. "Dope and flesh." Devlin stalks past the beef and the broads without batting an eye and confronts Mary...