Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday night, as I was sitting at home reading the 1977 Baseball Dope Book, I received the good news. I was just turning to the section on pinch-hitting records by left handed batters with runners on second and third base, when the radio announcer informed me that the dreadful strike had ended...
...Vegas and Harrisburg, Pa. With no central bosses or structure, the Marielitos operate as loose bands of conscienceless predators, uneducated and wild but also shrewd. One of their first bold strokes: dressed as police SWAT teams, they began invading the homes of Miami drug dealers. Besides stealing cash and dope, the raiders made a point of pistol-whipping, torturing and occasionally raping their victims, who, given their business, could not call police. Last year two drug dealers shot two Dade SWAT team members, thinking they were Marielitos in disguise...
...write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do enough things to keep a datebook." Still, he shambles with a fast crowd; one girl keeps track of her mother's whereabouts by reading Variety. Clay and his pals party nearly every night and do dope while cruising through some of the city's most expensive homes and restaurants. As Clay's month in L.A. draws to a close, the collective search for thrills grows wilder and nastier...
...dope underground's problems were not over. Half an hour later, police in Florida City, a small town 25 miles to the south, stopped a Winnebago for a minor traffic violation and discovered 2,094 lbs. of marijuana inside. But that was only an hors d'oeuvre. Before long a second Winnebago was stopped. Inside were 31 duffel bags stuffed with more than a ton of cocaine, a record haul for town police. Admiring colleagues at the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington noted that the two tons of cocaine seized in one day, with a total value of more than...
Kristofferson writes and performs several driving good time tunes here, but his charm is most impressive in the casualness with which he delivers such lines as "The only reason I drink is so that people won't think I'm a dope fiend." Dillon has mastered the nurturing mother figure and Torn, perhaps the most flexible film actor around, fully mines this caricature of unprincipled greed. The rest of the cast seems to be a merry bunch of natural role-players and con men; the rare awkward line is pardonable...