Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lilah Krytsick (Sally Field) is discovered skulking into the kind of 24-hour diner that, in movies, betokens a Mafia presence. And sure enough, a disreputable little man is soon slipping her a mysterious packet. Dope? Money for laundering? No, jokes. As it turns out, terrible jokes. Jokes that produce a distillation of pure flop sweat when she tries them out at a comedy club called the Gas Station, where beginning comics mostly improvise their own humiliations. For Lilah is a bored New Jersey housewife who has been told all her life that she is a funny lady and dreams...
...compulsion Dressel felt to dope is widespread and growing. So says Bruce Wilhelm, a weight lifter who competed in the 1976 Olympics and admits that he used steroids during his competitive days. "Sure I did. There's nobody in the world who hasn't. The difference today," says Wilhelm, now a member of the U.S.O.C. subcommittee on substance and drug abuse, "is that the dosages have increased ten- to 100-fold. It's crazy...
...international assault on Latin America's illicit drug industry was unprecedented. In Operation Snowcap, made public only when it ended last week, antidrug forces from 30 nations cooperated for 28 days in a blitz on the dope trade -- dynamiting airstrips, assaulting coca-processing operations, searching travelers. Among the participating nations were Belgium, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Britain, the U.S. and Venezuela. Results: 11 tons of cocaine and 244 tons of marijuana seized; 114 guns, 122 boats, planes and vehicles confiscated; 22 cocaine labs destroyed; and 1,267 arrests made. Yet no major kingpins were nailed. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh applauded...
Businesses in New Orleans are beckoning to the GOP tourists. At the Chicken Man House of Voodoo, they've put up a sign even Nancy Reagan would love--"Dope Be Death Say Chicken Man," it says...
...Gable wouldn't have touched this script with a ten- foot swizzle stick. Nor can Cruise find much to dine on here; the film is a 100-minute canape. Maybe it was meant to be a Bright Lights, Big City with a happy ending, and with booze instead of dope as the recreational drug of choice. Bryan Brown, who plays Cruise's misanthropic mentor, does eventually go the way of all flash: he can cope with everything but success. But if there is a moral here, it is lost in the film's desperate dash to ingratiate. As Cruise says...