Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time when hard-boiled movies are derigeur, a film on a religious theme can appear embarrassingly sentimental. Zeffirelli's has personal interpretation of the St. Francis legend does just that. And at a time when "Godspell" has recently been slapped onto the screen, and the term Jesus-freak is flung at a goodly portion of our "alienated" generation, a modern version of the same legend which stresses the similarities between past and present draws a yawn of boredom without any trouble...
High Costs. Most important to the new users is coke's current status as an "in" drug. "It's the height of fashion," says a well-heeled snow freak, "because it shows success." A "spoon" (usually half a gram) of cocaine costs between $25 and $50, and lasts an ordinary user just one evening. Heavy snorters spend several hundred a week. It is considered chic to inhale coke through a tightly rolled $100 bill. Silver straws from Tiffany's, intended for creme de menthe, are also used. Expensive vials and snuffboxes are popular too. Priest, a coke...
...Jesus freak, but I still think these deprogrammers are nuts...
This gleefully savage little novel introduces fiction's most dedicated bird freak since Augie March swept through Mexico with an eagle in tow. George Gattling, an otherwise sober, hardworking owner of an auto-seatcover business in Gainesville, Fla., is determined to train a red-tailed chicken hawk, which he keeps perched on his wrist. Frequently consulting his talismanic text, The Art of Falconry by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, George croons to the hawk, fasts when it fasts, even takes it with him when he goes to bed with his girl friend...
...Grateful Dead. Last I heard, my Dead freak friends were laying in provisions for a long trek to Springfield in Straus' BMW, on which they've scrawled, "Garcia is God." The plan is to see the Dead twice, there and at Boston Garden. And I know a guy who knows another guy who's seen the Dead thirty five times in the last year or so. Okay. I don't mind the Dead, but the prospect of seeing one of those five hour "Evenings with the Dead," twice in one week has the same effect as being forced to view...