Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, integrating hardened former guerrillas into Colombian society could prove difficult. Some government authorities have already expressed concern privately over F.A.R.C.'s reputed involvement in Colombia's $5 billion-a-year cocaine business. For their part, Colombian dope czars are indignant about charges of being connected to the guerrillas. "You can accuse me of being a narcotics dealer," huffed Billionaire Pablo Escobar, "but to say I'm in league with the guerrillas, well, that really hurts my personal dignity...
...Stone to transform her into a reasonable facsimile of one of her own adventuresses lost in the Colombian jungle. Michael Douglas plays the footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido and the map that leads to the buried treasure. Their path is strewn with kidnapers, dope smugglers, sadistic policemen and a wide variety of unpleasant reptiles. But Director Zemeckis pushes them along at a pace that disarms disbelief, while realizing the full satirical values of Diane Thomas' brisk thrusts at adventure-film conventions. Douglas graciously concedes the movie to Turner, the wild and steamy lady...
...made it only a minor offense, most users seem to assume that society has decided simply to look the other way. Not the police, however. There are more than 400,000 marijuana busts each year, and well over half of those arrests are for mere possession, sometimes for less dope than fills one joint...
...second, the impression that he is obtainable. But the audience's sense of his sensuality becomes quite deliberately tangled with the mirror image of his life: the good boy, the God-fearing Jehovah's Witness, the adamant vegetarian, the resolute non-indulger in smoke, strong drink or dope of any land, the impossibly insulated innocent. Undeniably sexy. Absolutely safe. Eroticism at arm's length...
...abandoned to marry the dashing actor James Tyrone--the aspirations of becoming a nun or a concert pianist, the niceties of the settled home life she has always craved. She blames herself for bringing Edmund, a sickly baby, into the world, and for disgracing her family by being a "dope fiend...