Word: hashish
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...Also, there's always the wayward young man whose parents will pay $1,500 to spring him from jail. And then a Deputy gets immunity from police searches of his car. Any time he drives out to the country, he can load up with $1,000 worth of hashish...
Only a few of the terrorists were caught -a ragged bunch of teenagers, made wild by hashish, who babbled incoherently about some juju rites in which they had been branded on the chest with five cuts that were supposed to make them invulnerable to bullets. But the song they had sung was well known-"General Moumié Gets Five Million Soldiers." The "general" referred to: Félix-Roland Moumié, 34, who lives in exile in Nkrumah's Ghana...
...proved more eager than even the "general" ever planned. It is doubtful whether Moumié had anything to do with the massacres, though he was willing to take credit. The young men of the tribe give them a few juju charms and medallions and severed heads, a supply of hashish and Czech small arms, and the massacres begin...
...alone readable. Easy Living, at least, is comprehensible, but the hippies who hop in and out of the beds Zane has made for them are, on the whole, lifeless forms. Rarely to they seem human; often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane's monsters no doubt have read their Henry Miller carefully and know their cues perfectly. Only their performances are shoddy, awkward, and deserving of the stage manager's book...
...heroine is not a childless young wife, but a fading movie queen, Ariadne de Lago (Geraldine Page). The ineffectual young man, Chance Wayne (Paul Newman), is a sexual athlete, but an impotent failure as the actor he wants to be. The has-been and the would-be smoke hashish ("Moroccan, and the finest") and saunter to the footlights to tell their sordid life stories in monologue...