Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want Jackson on the ticket and weren't too excited about the prospect of having him in the cabinet. What to do? Create a positon where he could, under the auspices of the government, travel from school to school, reminding students to put "hope in their brains" instead of "dope in their veins." It would be harmless...
Also lingering on most street corners are supporters of extremist Lyndon LaRouche, himself a one-time pretender to the White House. His followers try to convince passers by that the Queen of England is a dope pusher and accuse opponents of being cocaine addicts...
...while, all went well. A source who was involved says that Lackner supplied Hazeltine, through Parkin, with invaluable "market intelligence" on the Navy's needs for IFF gear, much of the information either internal or leaked before it was supposed to be made public. (Hazeltine denies receiving any inside dope.) Parkin, says TIME's source, did not bother to ask Lackner where he was getting his stuff; perhaps he did not want to know. Lackner acknowledges getting information about IFF from Berlin, but contends that he broke no laws...
...that's the time to get the popcorn. But there are pleasing character lines on the film's familiar muscular framework. The script, by Hill, Harry Kleiner and Troy Kennedy Martin, manages to work a little human plausibility, even poignancy, into a couple of cop-movie stereotypes: the black dope lord and the villain's duped wife. Belushi mines quick charm out of his surly role. And Arnold, starched tongue in cheek, is a doll: G.I. Joe in Soviet mufti. He could beat the stuffing out of a toy Rambo...
...confessing that they too had "experimented with" the evil weed. They all insisted that this was a youthful indiscretion that they deeply regretted, and they all were awarded little stars for courage and frankness. But where is the politician with the true courage to admit that he enjoyed smoking dope and does not especially regret...