Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study undertaken by a Harvard psychologist indicates that many people may intermittently take heroin without becoming addicted...
...reverts to a psuedo-novelistic form. Though Russell has unrestrained respect for Parker's talents, he nevertheless dismantles much of the myth that has grown around this genius of improvisation. Russell shows that Parker earned his place in jazz's pantheon by more than a shot of heroin. His talent was nurtured by hard work and an almost pathological concentration; Parker logged some 15,000 hours "woodshedding" (practicing). As he grew up, he heard firsthand all the important jazz artists who converged on his home town, Kansas City, Kans.: Count Basie, Hot Lips Page, Lester Young...
...could never find the time. Married twice, his amorous escapades were infamous. He was charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living off the top. "Do as I say and not as I do," he admonished Trumpeter Red Rodney as he gave himself a fix. He went into...
...snow, freeze, flake, lady). The habit was in vogue decades ago, then fell out of style except among pop musicians, some other show-business types and the more prosperous prostitutes and procurers. Yet a recent Government study concluded that the use of coke is now more widespread than of heroin. The same survey estimated that 4.8 million Americans have sampled the drug...
...avoidance of pain. Those who are of the pleasure-seeking type often find that there are drugs which are, indeed, pleasurable and may use them, casually, often or not. Those of the pain-avoiding category clasp their latest savior to their bosoms with a desperate grip, be it heroin, alcohol, or evangelical Christianity. The latter generally choose alcohol, because it is cheap and plentiful, and with the figures topping six million, alcoholics are indeed plentiful in our society. There will always be a small minority who will seek a savior in a bottle or a pill; but the world they...