Word: downers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortage-weary motorists, a majority (54%) said that more drastic steps by the Government were needed to deal with the crisis. Yet the poll was not a total downer. A resourceful 76% have found ways to save gasoline. The most popular methods include driving at lower speeds and running more errands on a single trip (54%). But few (9%) have joined car pools to save gas, and even fewer (4%) have turned to public transportation...
First, Cher kept putting down Sonny on their TV show. Then Sonny sued for a legal separation. Cher countersued, claiming she was sold into "involuntary servitude" to Sonny by a craftily written contract. Now Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour producers are having their downer. The show's rationale, the joys of marital strife, has vanished. But impervious to the show's doom and the feelings of their fans, Sonny and Cher seem content to rest on their considerable commercial success. That is to say, Sonny is. Cher's ambitions are already focused elsewhere. At the Grammy Awards...
After a desultory two-year career at Downer College in Milwaukee and a stint as an elevator operator in Gary, Ind., in 1946 Dewhurst entered New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts. A year later, she married Fellow Student Jim Vickery, and for the next dozen years lived with him in a series of cold-water flats, supporting herself with bit parts and odd jobs. At one point she had to turn down a major role when Director Joseph Papp, who had only heard about her, asked her to read for Juliet. "Oh, Mr. Papp," Dewhurst told...
...Your brief but informative coverage of "The Deadly Downer" [March 5] confirmed my suspicions concerning the pathetic effects of methaqualone. Many students here have been frantically doing soapers for more than a year, knowing little about the dangers and caring only that the pills are a great way to get loose. I appreciate TIME'S report of the frightening results of methaqualone abuse. Unfortunately, the people who need the information will probably be too soaped up to read the article...
Users-who are mostly youngsters -are rhapsodic about the euphoric, spaced-out state the drug can produce. Many, calling methaqualone "heroin for lovers," also believe that it is an aphrodisiac. They are mistaken. As a "downer," or depressant, the drug may release the user from his normal sexual restraints. But it is also likely to make a male incapable of normal sexual performance. As one Vassar man puts it, "All your inhibitions are definitely broken down-like everything else in your body...