Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEALING IS A boy-finds-dope, boy-loses-dope, boy-gets-girl movie. I suppose in some circles that in itself could be considered a fair enough trade. But at the going rate of $20 an ounce, Dealing hardly makes it as a $3 high...
...just wait until it hits the suburban circuit: This spring vacation it won't be, "You gotta understand, Mom, every Harvard guy can't be expected to fall in love with a Cliffie," but rather, "Look, I'm levelling with you, Dad, I didn't spend intersession smuggling in dope from the coast--I spent the 450 bucks on a Honda and then got the loan to help pay my term bill.") It's Harvard Comes to California all over again...
...hour exam as if to indicate that some cursed family ghost has just entered the room. So much for authenticity. For Peter rooms with John, rich aesthete and part-time dealer who soon has the pliable Pete off on a jet to Berkeley to pick up some dope. (Question then: when is a dealer a dealer instead of a pusher? When he only goes to Harvard while financing the trips his friends make to the Coast?) And, naturally enough, once in the Promised Land, Peter meets Susan--as portrayed by Barbara Hershey, a nicely built body and a little...
WELL WHAT MORE do you say about a girl from California who doesn't wear underwear? That on arrival at Logan, the cops bust her? That in order to secure her release Peter and John then set but to blackmail a cop who is dealing the confiscated dope on the sly? That complications follow--from the introduction of heroin to a mock-up of the South Station to a climactic shoot-out at Walden Pond between the cops and the Mafia? That Peter and Susan survive it all to ride off into the sunset...
...Dope that smells like piss tastes really fine...