Word: hashish
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...please don't think we've been feeding on hashish...
Sonny Stiff and Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano (New Jazz LP). These three 10-in. LP records contain the last beads on the lunatic fringe of "cool" jazz. At times the music of these small combos is as weird as a hashish dream or as annoying as fingernails on a blackboard, but they occasionally manage (when the piano rides above the saxophones) some pleasant, if disorganized, sounds...
...Children: "A television set is better than hashish in calming active children in the late afternoon...
...Twelfth Century Persian mathematician, court astronomer for Sultan Malik-Shah, epigrammatist and classmate of Hassan ben Sabbah ("The Old Man of the Mountain"), who founded the fanatical hashish-smoking Persian Assassins...
...Death, a Legend. Hashish and women interested him enormously, but he liked alcohol most. He traded off his fashionable clothes for one baggy, brown velvet suit, and took to staggering up & down the steep streets of Montmartre, drinking wine and coughing blood. He and Utrillo would wander into bars, introducing each other to the drunks inside as the "greatest painter in the world"; when the cops came, Modigliani would be carried off, excitedly reciting Dante to the uncomprehending constabulary. Head-wagging Parisians called him the peintre maudit (cursed painter...