Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interested in fighting the Mafia. It would rather bust upper-middle-class dope dealers...
...typical Crichton fashion, the book simulates accurate situations. Dealing talks about real-life facts of dope traffic and real human relationships. Patients similarly contains accurate descriptions of some hospital cases and even contains a few serious editorial points. But on the whole Patients resembles a magic act more than serious journalism: There is an air of revelation, mystery, and well-kept secrets throughout the book as "The Hospital Explained" pops out of the sleeve, flashes before the audience briefly and then disappears behind the back once more. People in the medical field, or anyone who knows hospital routine, will find...
...pictures in Life magazine. You remember those pictures: dormitory rooms sprinkled with brown-haired boys in crewneck sweaters and blue-eyed blondes stamped with ennui, their languid bodies frozen in glossy color, their fingers fading off into wisps of smoke. And you remember Life, the magazine which did for dope what the New York Times did for Charles Reich. But perhaps you weren't satisfied by Life. Or Look. Or Time or Newsweek or the Reader's Digest. Perhaps you want more...
...They Grind Exceeding Small" was delightful compared to Peter Harkness, the narrator of Dealing. Of all the one-dimensional men to creep onto the written page, Harkness must be leader of the pack. Peter Harkness, rich New England Harvard freak. A freak in J. Press clothing. His likes: dope, cigarettes, dope, "TWA stewies," dope, pubic hair. His dislikes: pigs, his parents, pigs, the mornings before exams, pigs, the Porcellian Club, pigs, pigs. The stoned vs. the straight, the freak vs. the pig-that is his Manichean worldview. And so we follow Peter Harkness from Boston to Berkeley, his suitcase crammed...
...their slick matrix, but not particularly pernicious. Unfortunately, Harkness shares other insights that are far more insidious. For instance, he criticizes "a fervent Marxist-Leninist" acquaintance: "We figured that any changes that were really going to happen were going to happen in people's heads . . . . So we blew our dope and stayed in our heads . . . . " Yet, describing the transformation of his friends and himself from straight to freak, Harkness includes the stage when "your parents [see] a picture of you in the papers with long hair, hanging out of the occupied administration building." The hopped-up hippies taking over buildings...