Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...History has its parallels to your story [Aug. 2] about the young lady who got high when she took a dip in a reflecting pool with her hashish supply stowed in her ear...
About half a century ago, a Baltimore pharmacologist performed animal experiments that showed that henbane, Hamlet's habenon, could be absorbed systemically when administered through the ear...
...Higgins is a B-grade writer with a weakness for overstretched metaphor: "Her dentures clattered like castanets on crusts of French bread," for example, or "popping back on her feet like a piece of bread from a toaster." He does have a fine ear for dialogue and a relish for tattletales that make Madame entertaining bathtub reading. If someone would do him the favor of stealing his dog-eared thesaurus, he might even make a good gossip columnist. ·Gerald Clarke
Inscrutable Joys. Both trains and planes are kept wondrously neat, onboard food is excellent, the supply of hot tea is endless, and ticket prices are reasonable. Loudspeakers, however, relentlessly blare selections from the Mao-glorifying "The East Is Red" or the equally ear-splitting "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman." (Three guesses as to who the helmsman happens...
Swallowing, sniffing, smoking and injecting are the prevalent ways of using drugs. One youngster has accidentally explored another method-packing her ear. The aural high was reported in a whimsical letter to the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Thomas E. Piemme of the George Washington University School of Medicine. Identified only as a "young lady of 18," the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear...