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...into focus. Polly Buck, for example, labors at the City Lights Powerhouse: "This girl is chaining your breakfast together, citizen. She is hitching the light up for your asinine patio party, your old starlight teevee movies, your electric toothbrush, vibrator, Magic Fingers." Maureen, a black woman who supports her heroin-addicted brother, operates a shipyard crane. She, Polly and three or four other sisters in honest toil are being vaguely menaced by a Eurasian man, who writes them inscrutable mash notes. Also spying on them, flickeringly, is a peculiar fellow with a white bulldog. While presenting these enigmatic events, Hannah...
...films were so raw, and illegal, at a time when publicly exhibited movies couldn't show a tit and couldn't say shit (literally: the 1962 film The Connection was banned in New York state for using the word, though the shit it referred to was not excrement but heroin), made seeing them the ultimate, safe guilty pleasure...
...Basquiat" is one of the major museum shows of the year, a reminder that for all the mediocrity and repetition of his last years, when his heroin addiction overcame his gifts and took his life, Basquiat was someone who produced some irresistible work. After it wraps up in Brooklyn on June 5, the exhibition moves on to Los Angeles and Houston, bringing cross-country the Basquiat debate--Was he the last inheritor of the Modernist tradition? A puerile nobody? Something in between?--and its attendant recollections of the '80s. Meanwhile, a sizable show called "East Village USA" has just completed...
...healthy diet. When her son was born six years ago with severe food allergies, she sought out pesticide-free produce and additive-free meat. But in Austin, her working-class, African-American neighborhood on Chicago's West Side, she discovered that "you could buy $200 sneakers, semiautomatic weapons and heroin, but you couldn't get an organic tomato." Austin's 117,000 residents are served by only one major supermarket, along with scores of small outlets that sell mostly fast food and processed food--fueling high rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension in the community. Redmond, 41, found herself driving...
...TIME Archives Online Heroin, cocaine, speed, pot, ecstasy. TIME has reported on all those drugs and others for more than 80 years, bringing the harsh reality of usage and addiction to our readers. "Coke is no joke," we pointed out in our July 6, 1981, cover story, "High on Cocaine." TIME's article detailed the pervasiveness of use by middle-class Americans and quoted an initiate as saying, "After one hit of cocaine I feel like a new man. The only problem is, the first thing the new man wants is another hit." Subscribers can read that report in full...