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...minute after Joel Schwartz's Just a Quiet Note begins, Isabel gives herself a fix. Since the fact of dope addiction no longer has much shock value, this was merely distracting. Slipping into a documentary frame of mind for a moment, I wondered vaguely whether the actress's technique was authentic, and waited...
...really can't see what Schwartz is getting at. If he said anything about dope addiction, or alcoholism--or life--the lurid plot props would be perfectly reasonable. But he doesn't. The play has no application either to the underworld or to the world in general...
...bottles for chamberpots (and then return the empties), spit in the streets, and boost the crime rate. Many local police disagree. In Manchester, says Deputy Chief Constable William J. Richards, coloreds actually commit fewer offenses in proportion to their numbers than whites, though they are more often related to dope and prostitution, and thus more likely to hit headlines. "As a police problem," says Richards, "they are no more noticeable than the Irish were 25 years...
...saying yes, but I'm not doing yes," Stella replies none too firmly. After a night together in a lifeguard's shack on the beach, her doubts are even stronger: "We're getting away with something in the bushes. It's just like using dope, only we used each other...
...that you have "essayed" a catalogue of the smuttiest books, why not follow up with "How to Murder Mysteriously," "Where to Buy Burglar Tools," "Dope, Drugs and Where to Obtain Them," "How to Become a Lady of Easy Virtue," "Easy Methods of Paying Taxes...