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...said I did and then Chuck broke in and said that he was thinking about going AWOL again and Chris rolled his eyes and said just when they had a conversation going Chuck had to fuck it up again. Chris said that he used to use a lot of dope and that he quit and started getting into shape; he had been practicing karate for seven months now and he had enlisted for Korea, because there was a lot of karate there and did I know if that was true. I said I had heard that too and then...
Otten conceded that the vicious parochialism of most newspapers in competing for scoops goes against a concerted effort to disseminate the news to the public. And syndicated columnist Jack Anderson's burning desire to publish dope on Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton's (D-Mo.) use of drugs only led to a rash and premature account, Otten said...
...guilt that touches them--the pain is that they wouldn't understand that--but they are puzzled and defensive in the real world. Maybe the most interesting scene in the film is when the soldiers meet some pant-suited women in New York who take them back to a dope party. The movie can't resist making them into religious fanatics who are into chanting, which complicates the matter when the point is that they're really quite normal (though the kid's eager response to the road to salvation--shades of Salinger's Franny and chicken sandwiches--is worth...
...Dope and Dirty Words. Perhaps because politics today provides its own, few of the new comics play with political satire. Most of rock humor seems securely tied up in the double-whammy bags of dope and dirty words. Dope naturally supplies the subject matter. The dirty words, no longer reserved as final zingers, are strung right along through almost every sentence-alternating, of course, with the word man, the sine quanon of the species...
When these elements are used as tools of comic construction, the results can be splendid parody, as in Cheech & Chong's TV quiz-show takeoff Let's Make a Dope Deal, "where young pushers try to parlay their stash into the reely big connection and move up into dealerhood." Unfortunately, the dope and dirty words too often seem intended to be funny in themselves, giggling passwords to separate "us" from "them...