Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After I took acid, I told my parents I had dropped [taken it]. They got really really uptight and said acid could make you go insane. But at least they didn't care about grass any more. They're just worried about grass because it's against the law. They never threatened to call the heat [police] or anything. They never even told me never to use drugs again. They just said: "Not in the house...
...some people can have a bad time with dope. Acid can make you flip out. One classmate of mine was disowned by his wealthy parents after he got busted from school for using grass. He started to do acid every day by shooting [with a hypodermic needle] and snorting [inhaling the powder], and he started to deal [push it, sell it] too. His parents thought he was going insane, and they talked of committing him. So he ran away from home. Nobody knows where he is now. Also, another cat I know got busted in Carmel [Calif.] for using weed...
...this week's premiere, for example, O. J. Simpson plays a guest role as an All-America college halfback desperately trying to suppress symptoms of a mystery ailment lest it jeopardize a $500,000 pro offer. (A nice bit of casting, that, although in real life O.J. got an estimated $350,000 from the Buffalo Bills.) The rest of the program rang changes on the versus pattern: Young Doctor Chad Everett v. Old Doctor James Daly; modern technology v. pheochromocytoma, of all things. Simpson, incidentally, seemed headed for recovery...
Once The Bill Cosby Show gets rolling on NBC, it promises to be an instant rerun of Our Miss Brooks, or maybe Mr. Peepers. Cosby is supposed to play a high school coach, although in last week's premiere he got nowhere near a school, a gym or a teenager. Instead, he jogged what might have been a good five-minute Cosby monologue into a 30-minute yawn about mistaken identity and false arrest...
...got vision," brags Butch Cassidy, "and the rest of the world wears bifocals." Unfortunately, the rest of the world includes the makers of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Every character, every scene, is marred by the film's double view, which oscillates between sympathy and farce...