Word: junks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Part of the solution of the "mail mess" would be to raise the postal rate of bulk mail. This would rid the workers of quite a load of junk mail and would raise more money for the Post Office...
Overall, the new album is good McCartney-clever, varied, full of humor -but it is nothing to match his past pop classics, particularly Yesterday, Michele and Hey, Jude. His lyrics are best when least pretentious, as in Junk, a kind of sentimental word jamboree: "Bye, bye, says the sign in the shop window/ Why, Why, says the junk in the yard." Maybe I'm Amazed, however, is a pale echo of the choral sumptuousness of McCartney's The End, which served as the coda to Abbey Road, the hit 1969 Beatle album...
...persuaded the movers to list the packers' labels, one of which was "basement, attic and garage junk." At 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, the boss announced that his van was fully loaded and that she would have to get a second van?from where, he did not know or care. In desperation, Mrs. McCulloch phoned the moving company's offices in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. No one answered. By midmorning she reached the Chicago office, which arranged to send a second van. After Mrs. McCulloch arrived at her new home, she watched as the movers knocked much of the paint...
...Junk has been common even among teen-agers in the ghetto for 20 years. Around 1950, Harlem-bred Claude Brown writes in Manchild in the Promised Land, "horse was a new thing. It was like horse had just taken over." Now, says Criminologist Roger Smith, director of a drug therapy center near San Francisco, "the emerging junkie of the 1970s is a middle-class junkie as well as a junior junkie." Here are some of those contemporary junkies who have shaken the habit?at least...
...drugs most of his teen-age life. "When I was shooting up, I liked to read about other junkies in the papers. It fed my sickness. I liked to hear about the ODs [overdose cases], and I'd think I was brave for taking it." For kids on junk, of all the forms of treatment or temporizing that have been tried (see box, page 20), the residential group therapy center seems to provide the strongest support. The theory is that kids get each other on junk, and kids can help each other get off it. Parents are not quite helpless...