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Word: maguey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florentine, he knew it was somewhere under Tuscany. For Malcolm Lowry, a 20th century mystic, it lay under the volcano that looks down on Cuernavaca in Mexico and inside a bottle of mescal, a drink as hallucinatory, it seems, as mescaline, a drug which is also derived from the maguey cactus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's Volcano | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...show in himself, as always. He wears black leather suits, white hunter's outfits and long striped muu muus. He has a tawny Anglo-Iranian girl named Zoë: with him. He has also made the happy discovery of raicilla, a 180-proof distillate of the maguey plant that is far more potent than tequila. "If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine," says Burton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Cast Menagerie | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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