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Because the particular problems of a labor camp inmate, like the particular problems of a heroin addict, are not like any other predicament they are especially difficult to portray. Solzhenitsyn conveys the prisoners' destitution by alternating between dead pan description of bodily pain and cowering before nameless authorities, and emphasis on the miniscule occurrences that bring relief from suffering. Ivan finds a hacksaw blade, gets a little tobacco, and uses his favorite spoon. These few moments in Ivan's day when he feels he can do something that he wants to do punctuate the bleak narrative description of camp routine...
...their kids being regularly rolled for their lunch money; in Annapolis Md white children are afraid to use school washrooms guarded by black toughs Detroit's Martin Luther King High School has a modern building, but the school is an island in the middle of a rotting ghetto. Heroin is openly dispensed from a "shooting gallery" a block away: drunks loll on the sidewalks, bottles of Thunderbird wine still in their hands...
Well, Beck's back. His new album, while though not the best he's done, shows that he is still the English guitarist. With Led Zeppelin breaking up, Eric Clapton playing as a studio musician somewhere in London, and many other former competitors dead from heroin overdose, Beck should gain the commercial success he has long deserved. Remember, Jeff Beck discovered Rod Stewart; not the other way around...
Possession of heroin, a drug which is listed in the highest classification as a dangerous narcotic, draws not more than a two-year jail sentence for any offense. First offense for the sale of heroin is punished by not more than two years, and sentences for subsequent sale offenses must not exceed 25 years...
...crime of "being present" where drugs are used has been totally abolished except in the case of heroin. Heroin "presence" penalties will be identical to those for marijuana possession...