Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clothes, very personal. They are a form of entertainment. You might go for cigars or for guns, but this type of entertainment you can enjoy while driving, not just while you're at home. And it's a good clean form of fun, instead of pills or dope. You know, you can get high on your car." "Here," says Ben Carco, an American Motors dealer in Reseda, "your car is part of you." There are Angelenos who, like those old ladies with toy poodles, bristle when told that they have to leave their cars outside, which accounts...
...supposedly hip a publication as Rolling Stone took time, in an article on the Cockettes, to review San Francisco's sexual underground, concluding. "We are seeing the beginning of the 21st century here, and it feels like sitting ground zero during an explosion of sexuality and hedonism and dope and sensation-seeking unparalleled in American history. "Their tone was one more of condemnation than of delight...
BLUM AND SMITH recount the story of a 19 year-old who "came to Cambridge to be a hippie" with his leather-working tools and a smile for everyone. By the end of the summer--his tools stolen, wasted from hunger and too much bad dope, arrested several times by the police--he was in a mental hospital. As the authors describe over and over, the hippie myth carried by the summer travellers "Is continually at odds with the survival requirements of life on the Cambridge Common." This dialectic yields so bizarre a synthesis as James, an ace Volkswagen...
...Life on the Common," say the authors, "Is an experience of tedium, movement in aimless revolutions around the memorial pedestal, from which Lincoln surveys the new emancipation." There are a few rewards--easy sex, dope, and companionship. But people stay mostly because no matter how bad life is in Cambridge, It's better than what they have just left. Which is, usually, a broken home with no money about, or an alcoholic father who forced you to dress like a baby and fed you strong tranquilizers so you'd up. Or no home whatsoever...
Billy Duke, rising Toronto superstar. Fast on his skates. A little slower with his mouth, but that's all right. He's honest, and his mind is clean. Sherri Lee Nelson, rising bubblegum folk singer. Well-scrubbed, blonde, vivacious. Smokes dope occasionally, but she's basically committed, one understands, to making this world a better place for all of us to live...