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Word: dust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ventured to do. Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel, who represents a drug-riddled district in New York City's Harlem, poses a long string of questions for those who would legalize drugs. Among them: Which drugs should be permitted, just marijuana or the more damaging heroin, cocaine and angel dust? How would they be sold, by prescription through hospitals and clinics or in "drugstores," tobacco shops, even supermarkets? Would there be an age limit, and how would it be enforced? Would users be permitted to buy as much as they wanted, even if their demands became insatiable as their addictions deepened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...taxed and heavily regulated; for example, they would be forbidden to sell to anyone under 21 years old. But there are many variations. Some supporters would permit the legal sale of marijuana only; Washington Mayor Marion Barry might add cocaine but is dead set against legalizing PCP (angel dust). Economist Friedman would permit the sale of every imaginable brand of upper and downer at the local drugstore. Dershowitz would go so far as to distribute heroin free from mobile vans in inner cities to "medically certified addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Early-warning cells constantly monitor the bloodstream and tissues for signs of the enemy. With the gusto of Pac-Man, they gobble up anything that is foreign to the body. They envelop dust particles, pollutants, microorganisms and even the debris of battle: remnants of invaders and infected or damaged body cells. Other early warners direct the production of unique killer cells, each designed to attack and destroy a particular type of intruder. Some of the killers, alerted to body cells that have become cancerous, may annihilate these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop That Germ! | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...beat of La Bamba. But when the crush of couples on the polished concrete floor of the store's veranda became too great on a recent Friday night, a score or more of folks took to dancing in the street anyway. Scuffed cowboy boots and battered sneakers kicked up dust and occasionally sent crushed aluminum beer / cans skittering across the gravel surface. The excited yelps of dancers wafted off into the desert toward arid mountain ranges swathed in the pale light of a distant moon, keeping silent watch over the U.S.-Mexican border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Easygoing on the Border | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...good stuff. Nicolas Roeg casts his wife, the exemplary Theresa Russell, as King Zog of Albania foiling a terrorist plot to the strains of Un Ballo in Maschera. Jean-Luc Godard sets Lully's Armide in a Paris gym. Body builders pump iron; two gorgeous sorceresses dust them off. Murder is in the air, and the kinetic poetry Godard can create from the way a woman's hair falls across her face. Julien Temple's witty episode -- quick gags and endless tracking shots -- plops Rigoletto into California's baroque Madonna Inn. A movie producer philanders in a room decorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Opera for The Inoperative | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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