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...long, elm-cast shadows that once drifted across campuses and evoked dreams of Main Street, U.S.A., are fading-the victims of Dutch elm disease. Caused by a fungus and carried by bark beetles, the incurable blight was first detected in the U.S. in 1930 and has since spread inexorably across the nation, leaving unsightly stumps in its path. Although most American elms seem doomed, there is now hope that a hardy new breed of elm will rise to take their place...
Intense Perception. If grass is the staple of hippiedom, then lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is its caviar. Derived from a parasitic fungus that grows on rye, lysergic acid is mixed with volatile diethylamine (used in vulcanizing rubber), then frozen; the resulting LSD is extracted by using chloroform or benzine for fractional distillation, or else by means of a simple vacuum evaporator. Now available in pill form, or else as a soluble crystalline powder (the liquid-dunked sugar cubes of yesteryear are out), LSD produces an eight-to-twelve-hour trip highlighted by profound changes in thought, mood and activity. Colors...
...scoff at such superstitious notions. And soon, in fact, Guy's acting fortunes are on the rise. But then, one by one, untoward events happen: a ghastly suicide, a sudden blindness, a paralytic coma. Dark signs and otherworldly hints occur: black candles, "tannis root" or Devil's Fungus, missing articles of clothing...
...dissipated cherub brilliantly played by David Hemmings, has learned how to ride the crest of the mod culture wave; he got rich quick, drives a Rolls, and takes sex and marijuana with the casual detachment that marks him and his kind. He seems, as Time describes, "a little fungus that is apt to grow in a decaying society...
Either public opinion or the movie moguls' under-standing of it has realy flipped out. By all logic, the spy genre should have dwindled out of existence months ago. Instead it has grown into a ghastly fungus that won't tolerate competition. Westerns are fewer and cheaper than ever before. Mysteries without international accents seem no longer to have a place in the Hollywood scheme of things. Raw tales of adventure--well, when did you last see a raw tale of adventure...