Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Users-who are mostly youngsters -are rhapsodic about the euphoric, spaced-out state the drug can produce. Many, calling methaqualone "heroin for lovers," also believe that it is an aphrodisiac. They are mistaken. As a "downer," or depressant, the drug may release the user from his normal sexual restraints. But it is also likely to make a male incapable of normal sexual performance. As one Vassar man puts it, "All your inhibitions are definitely broken down-like everything else in your body...
...tolerance for the drug and begin taking increasingly larger doses. Then they may become addicted. "Resistance can develop after only four days," says Mike, a 20-year-old San Franciscan. "Then it takes four to do what one used to do for you. The withdrawals are much worse than heroin, with the same kind of convulsion as in an epileptic...
Compared with Kovell, Pincus is a puritan. He seems satisfied with joylessly initiating one 14-year-old virgin and watching her take up with heroin. Pincus' passion is for revolution and cultivating flowers of evil from all the standard humanities-department seed catalogues. He is an organizer of the destruction of art in local museums and the burning of Harvard's Widener Library. He kills Mailer, further extending those justifications for hell raising that Mailer himself borrowed from Dostoevsky, Baudelaire...
FRIDAY: Wait Until Dark (1967). Fascinating suspense thriller features Audrey Hepburn, in her most recent movie role, as a blind girl terrorized by a heroin smuggler. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...
...answer was simple enough. "That's a can of worms. It's not tough for us, but the political climate is a can of worms. The Cambridge Coordinating Committee on Drugs is in a state of limbo. There's $1.5 million waiting to come into the city for heroin addiction, and some of the black groups aren't sure they'll get a piece of it." In short, drugs, according to Kerry Saravelas, "are not our mandate...