Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Collectionitis is as pervasive as inflation, as euphoric as a drug high. Its grip reaches far beyond the roseate world of Rembrandts, Sèvres porcelain and Georgian silver. A vast subculture of acquisition is feeding on scarce objects of every conceivable description. Britons are busily unearthing-and auctioneers as busily selling-such objects of dubious virtue as antique typewriters, gramophones and biscuit tins. Americans, with more catholic taste for trivia, have enshrined such unlovely objets trouvés as old flyswatters, orange reamers, apple parers, Kraft cheese jars (a.k.a. "swanky swigs"), Mickey Mousiana, player pianos, Coke bottle tops, beer...
When Boyce confided his concern to his pal, the drug dealer suggested a way to retaliate: hand over some incriminating TRW documents to peddle at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. To Boyce, writes New York Times Reporter Robert Lindsey, "his job in the Black Vault became an opportunity to take a saber stroke at both the world's superpowers at once ... and Daulton had had the greed to serve his purpose...
Over the next year they sold thousands of messages, diagrams and computer codes to the resident Soviet agents, including a KGB colonel with steel teeth. The Soviets wound up unwittingly bankrolling Daulton's drug operation, and the pair came to grief only after an unannounced delivery to the embassy to raise cash for a big drug deal. The friends turned against each other at their trials, Christopher saying he had been blackmailed into stealing the secrets by his former friend, Daulton insisting that all along he had been told they were working for the U.S., spreading false information. Judge...
...Falcon and the Snowman omits no telling detail - about falconry, the drug trade, spy satellites, the duo's stoned bum-bung, and their torturous legal battles after capture. But there are enough tantalizing loose ends in the book to make it clear that Lindsey is describing life, not art. Why, for instance, did TRW put a 21-year-old, $140-a-week college dropout in such a sensitive post? Did the leaks really damage U.S. security? Perhaps Boyce and Lee actually were being used by the CIA to spread false evidence. If not, concludes Lindsey, then "the affair...
...four parts remain in uneasy alliance. When Drummer Keith Moon was alive, he was like a self-contained chain reaction, "our little bit of nasty," as Daltrey calls him. Moon died of an overdose of Heminevirin, a drug he was taking to combat his alcoholism. Moon's passing forced a crisis within the group, the three surviving members re-examining their loyalty to rock, and to each other. Daltrey told Townshend: "Keith's life and death were a gift to the group. A sacrifice to allow us to continue." Townshend recalls thinking at the time, "How can I agree with...