Word: mellowness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organized by Campus Hedonists Against Organized Society (CHAOS), the afternoon-long celebration of "the mellow way of life," as one participant put it, included the free distribution of joints from the steps of the main university library...
...snorted coke occasionally but preferred the more mellow high of heroin, which a classmate gave her during her senior year. Soon she was hooked. After two years of college in New York and two more years abroad, Coleman settled in Manhattan. She tried to kick her heroin habit, enrolling in a methadone program. But soon she discovered an irresistible thrill: speedballs, injections of coke and heroin mixed together. She thus acquired a craving for the drug she had once dismissed. "The intense flash from the cocaine was so wonderful that if I only had $20 I'd buy coke...
...crowded with people waiting to score: blacks, Hispanics and middle-class whites. Clean-cut young men in tweed jackets and attractive young women in designer jeans listen intently to the dealers' pitches. "Get your Lucky Seven here-best dope in town." "Colt .45 is Jesus bread." "Poison is mellow today...
Aided by New York Media Consultant David Sawyer, the redoubtable Byrne underwent a political facelift. Slickly produced television spots portrayed her as uncharacteristically mellow and calm, and solely responsible for righting the city's careening fiscal course-an arguable claim. Meanwhile, the Washington campaign bided its time. When a Jan. 8 poll, conducted by Washington's consultant Paul Maslin, showed Daley's support stagnating, Washington produced a series of simple, well-crafted media spots that were aired during the last weeks of the race. Many were targeted at the mayor, who was ridiculed as a poor administrator...
...House is a lot more mellow now in terms of racial disturbances," explains Judy Shields '84, a Black student and Currier House committee chairman. "Black students feel that Harvard's policy for recruiting Blacks in general is changing, and that is affecting Currier because it has been a center for Blacks," she adds. Shields sees the changes as "a jeopardy to our solidarity...