Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SOMETHING HAPPENED to me yesterday: what it was. I really cannot say," sang the Rolling Stones in 1966. Critics later determined that the pleasant-sounding ditty referred to the Stones' first LSD trip and to the type of revelation that inspired kids to grow their hair long, curse their parents and sleep five to a bed. Hair is about whatever happened to the Stones and everyone else. It's a series of vigorous pop numbers and bittersweet comedy schticks covering the familiar themes of the decade before last. When it opened 14 years ago on Broadway. It shocked and delighted...
...cast," the dance arrangements are sloppy and amateurish. Only about half of the ensemble demonstrates any real feel for the rhythm, and the rest make do with what they remember from high school hops. Worst of all, everyone keeps spilling into the audience to distribute flowers and fake LSD tabs. Yazbeck and Co. should worry less about drawing people into the action and more about the human demolition derby taking place back on the stage...
Thus the Clare Boothe Luce who emerges in this lively, shrewd, indulgent book is, sui generis, a complicated and brilliant woman who has more or less equally enjoyed LSD and scuba diving and her honorary status as general in the U.S. Army. Sheed's book is complicated too. It is not, he ultimately concedes, a biography at all. Maybe, he suggests, "Notes on a Career" will...
...which are ever resolved, end by frustrating or intimidating the reader. A favorite theme seems to be the middle-aged protagonist grappling with the leftover complications of long-ago some adventure that ripped the fabric of a conventional life: a successful businessman, whom the CIA drugged with LSD 20 years ago as a random experiment, throws himself into the public eye by suing the government for his life's subsequent turmoil; a Vietnam veteran, past 30, goes to Florida to watch the filming of a T.V. documentary about his sensational escape from prison camp a decade before. Or the pattern...
...focuses his fiercest and most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...