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...made it only a minor offense, most users seem to assume that society has decided simply to look the other way. Not the police, however. There are more than 400,000 marijuana busts each year, and well over half of those arrests are for mere possession, sometimes for less dope than fills one joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booming Busts | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...second, the impression that he is obtainable. But the audience's sense of his sensuality becomes quite deliberately tangled with the mirror image of his life: the good boy, the God-fearing Jehovah's Witness, the adamant vegetarian, the resolute non-indulger in smoke, strong drink or dope of any land, the impossibly insulated innocent. Undeniably sexy. Absolutely safe. Eroticism at arm's length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...abandoned to marry the dashing actor James Tyrone--the aspirations of becoming a nun or a concert pianist, the niceties of the settled home life she has always craved. She blames herself for bringing Edmund, a sickly baby, into the world, and for disgracing her family by being a "dope fiend...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Long Night | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...This is a splendid place," said Hemingway. "Nobody believes me when I say I'm a writer. They think I represent big Northern bootleggers or dope peddlers." Even now Key West, underneath the gentrification and new time-share resorts, is still psychically an island of pirates and smugglers, where it is rude to ask a last name or an occupation. For writers, anonymity is pleasant only until it begins to feel like obscurity. Then it is reassuring to be near other writers. Key West offers serendipitous encounters, noon walks, short talks. There are always parties, to refuse virtuously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Key West: The Writer as a Star | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...addition to disliking Robert Kennedy, Marcello also had cause to make the President, John Kennedy had approved of his brother's attack on Marcello and union leader Jimmy R. Holla and his unsuccessful Boy of pigs invasion had lost all of the Mafia's casino dope cackers and position rings to Fidel Castro. Ferre was anti-Castro and-elegantly turned Owald Ferrie was found dead six days after being named as a conspirator by Garrison. The thread tying Dallas and New Orleans together was allegedly Ruby...

Author: By Paul T. Evans, | Title: Who Shot the President? | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

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