Word: ethers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police confiscated about 1.3 tons of cocaine in base and finished form. But what left law-enforcement officials gloating was the seizure of unprecedented quantities of chemicals used in the manufacture of cocaine. The cache included 417,095 gal. of ether acetone and methyl ethyl ketone, and 95 tons of potassium permanganate -- enough chemicals to make 104 tons of cocaine, a third of the estimated annual cocaine output of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined...
Everything else associated with these murders has long been up for grabs; understanding has been swamped by a torrent of details and speculation. The Kennedy assassination now seems to float in some peculiar, highly charged ether between fact and fiction, where logic distills into dreams. To write a novel about the deaths in Dallas seems redundant, the making up of a story about a myth...
Robin Williams stalks a concert stage, conning inspiration from the ether. In a nightclub, a customer's name will spark a from-nowhere verbal riff. And in the course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than...
...middle of unimaginable carnage? Safire disposes of such questions in two perfunctory sentences. Then he gets to the important part, a detailed exposition of how photographs are made, circa 1862: "He coated a sheet of glass with collodion, the guncotton dissolved in alcohol and sulphuric ether mixed with a little bromide and iodide of potassium they had compounded the night before...
...athletically inclined: Vent your sexual frustration by working out at the Malkin Athletic Center. Who Knows whom or what you might meet? If someone else is there too, he/she obviously doesn't have a date ether, so you can afford to be direct. men, it might be a beneficial idea to bring along a spare flower or two, especially it you tend to use pick-up lines as unobvious as, "Hey, want to bench press my body...