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heavy student turnout at the University of Michigan helped save Ann Arbor's lenient marijuana law last week, but at a widely publicized university Hash Bash on April 2. only 25 smokers gathered to celebrate the municipality's lax drug laws...
...Hash Bash, founded in 1972 as a radical-inspired stab at traditional moral values, helmeted police and barricaded buildings confronted the small group of students who said they came mostly "out of tradition...
These almighty arbiters project the image of a group of serious, self-important executive businessmen (and women, the idealist hopes), who gather in a smoky conference room to view the nominated films, receive briefings on their technical achievements, and with an eye to popular opinion, hash out over a period of many days the definitive list of winners. But a call to the Academy shatters such illusions. The Academy is made up of approximately 4200 "professional motion picture craftsmen and artists" who view the pictures in their spare time and submit nominations in their field. Actors nominate actors, directors nominate...
...schools and Swiss finishing schools. It is a world, she claims, where using drugs is as common as clipping coupons. "Most of the people I knew snorted coke and took pills. You just couldn't make a move without ammunition." Coleman, now 28, says she began sampling marijuana, hash, amphetamines and barbiturates when she was a freshman at an exclusive girls' school in Virginia horse country. The status drug among the teen-age girls, however, was clearly cocaine. "If you had a little thing of coke you felt cool," Coleman recalls...
...their vaunted coolness of acting technique, the British seem to demand that their plays make heated arguments. The enemy may be imperialism, fascism, racism, even male chauvinism or the belabored-to-death class system, but an enemy there must be. Americans often make a hash of British plays, mangling not just the accents but the invective. Sometimes, though, an American director's instinctively naturalistic approach, evoking a slice of life, can soften a didactic play and give it newfound emotional depth...