Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many the book may touch too close to home. Living in our tiny rooms, by turns smoking dope, listening to Dylan, and sleeping, it's all too easy to understand Randy's maze of confusion. Caught swirling in a world out of control, Randy's last scream echoes our own pointless protests. We may have had enough of this replay of our own lives, especially now when we have a sense of the beginning and the end of what was once full of buoyant hope. I just don't know anymore. You have to think in the end tha this...
...only two hotels. No American girl who values her reputation enters the Continental bar/lobby; here the French drinking companions are American pilots-employed by Air America, paid by the CIA, earning $1000 a week for airlifting "rice" to tribal villagers, drowning out the echoes of antiaircraft fire with dope and liquor. "Laotian neutrality" and American "food aid" are pretty good jokes when you're ripped...
...recorded walking tours of the cities (each narrated by a properly accented guide), as well as taped auto tours of the French and English countrysides. The tourist willing to lug a cassette player around Europe can wander the highways and byways for hours, all the while picking up inside dope like Montparnasse was a refuge for struggling artists like Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald in the years following World...
...studio. We've sold the offices. We sold the commissary. We even sold the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. Now we have to sell movies. [Low chorus of enthusiastic murmurs from subordinates.] We gave them Zabriskie Point, and we even put back all the sex and dope stuff that had been cut out. The public still didn't go for it. We gave them The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, the tender story of a student's search for identity. Nice sex in there, but they didn't go for that. We gave them...
...drug culture and more interested in kicks than cures, have proved less cooperative. "Methadone did the trick," explained a 20-year-old who skipped the counseling at an Illinois treatment center. "The reason I didn't stay on it was that I missed the excitement of using dope. I missed all the glamour of hustling and beating on people...