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...Although he had no journalistic experience, his breezy enthusiasm impressed WABC executives looking for someone to fill a vacant ethnic slot (he is half Puerto Rican, half Jewish). Rivera wasted little time on one-alarm fire assignments before digging into his own niche as the station's "slum-dope reporter." He made his name with a three-part report on the Drug Crisis in East Harlem, which gave names and faces to drug-abuse statistics with portraits of three heroin addicts. In 1972 he sneaked a camera crew into the Willowbrook State School for the mentally retarded and produced...
...Springsteen's fresco of muscle and dope is not the revelling in machismo that it might be (i.e. J. Geils), although clearly anybody who has proclaimed in song that "I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra" is to be watched closely. But even when a chorus of women sing "Those romantic young boys, all they ever want to do is fight," it conveys a soft ironic criticism which runs through the whole album, up to the point where Springsteen tells a girl friend "you oughtta quit this scene...
Greenberg and Hantz arrest dope dealers by using a variety of enterprising but dubious techniques: they break into apartments from the roof, descend from tall, tall buildings on long, long ropes...
Stevens discovered scotch at the Casablanca. Always prone to comfort in any form, he began to favor fits of laughter with acquaintances and morose drunkenness with friends. Dope was worse; it seemed to cost more and made him slightly nauseous...
...watch them grow." Some of his favorite writers have not yet been published professionally. Gary Taylor, who just finished eighteen months for drug addiction, used his time working on a novel. Dellinger says of Margaret Martinez, a prolific young Chicano who is in for three years for smuggling dope: "She has the potential to do for the barrio what James Baldwin did for ghetto life." Liddy has not been published either, and does not want to be-at least for the present. But like all his classmates, he seems to be using the writing to help himself understand his current...