Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witnesses, when in 1982 they paraded some 50 criminals into court to testify against ten police officers charged with taking bribes to protect the drug trade. "They were the dirtiest you could put on the stand," recalls Webb. "Their backgrounds were as unsavory as they come - rapes, murders, dope transactions." Despite loud protests from defense attorneys that the witnesses were "born liars" and their appearance a "farce," all the officers were convicted...
...about such shared experiences as getting a dose of bad press and their responsibility as symbols for black Americans. "It was said for a while that the only way you could appeal to the masses was to be decadent, but that's not true," observed the candidate. "No dope-oriented album ever sold as much as Thriller, and no vulgar artist ever became so famous as Michael has." That being so, the Reverend made sure he would be welcome at home, by getting Michael's autograph for his daughter Jackie...
...Dope dealers and dissidents are among Jesse's 48 freed...
...text, liberally prepared with color and black-and-white photos of the Stones at their decadent best, suffers from the same '60s-envy that makes otherwise rational human beings mythologize the pompous and overblown Jim Morrison or believe that the Grateful Dead were ever more than a bunch of dope fiends who knew a few chord changes...
Interest in the drug habits of the rich and famous, of course, is now passe. The dreary repetition of reports detailing the dope usage of rock TV, and movie stars is now an established feature of modern newspapers, and moreover, society has virtually accepted wholesale the social use of many once-forbidden and shadowy substances. If that had been the focus of Woodward's book--as apologists for Belushi who have read only shallowly claim--not only would Wired have amounted to a virtual rabbit-punch, but it would have been boring to boot...