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Many of the cigarettes are imported from India, some under the name of Mint Bidis. These contain thorn apple, a common term for the botanist's Datura stramonium, also known as Jimson weed. It can be highly poisonous in large doses and yields strong hallucinatory drugs. One patient, who arrived at the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute in a confused state, out of touch with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within...
...wear (see color pages). The clothes are extravagantly ornamented, with braiding, tasseled cords, floral scarves, satin ribbons, hammered gold jewelry. They are topped with turbans, mink toques, babushkas, knit caps, fezzes and feathers, and bottomed with boots, boots, boots. They are an incendiary eruption of color: violet, emerald, scarlet, mint, tangerine, rose, sapphire, turquoise, lime, azure, royal purple...
...Kentucky Derby. But until a few days ago, it was the strong consensus among both those who know the turf and those who merely know the betting windows that a splendid colt named Honest Pleasure was as sure a thing at Churchill Downs this Saturday as the weak mint julep...
Chinatown. They'll make a mint showing this, and they deserve to. What seemed to be another cashing-in on the spate of the thirties films that did so well at the box office, turned out to be much more complex and intelligent than anyone expected. Beneath the precise atmospheric touches (the right clothes, the right music, the right slang, etc.) you find an apt and sinister diagram of where the tentacles of power lead. It's a lovely new interpretation of the American pioneerism: John Huston's Noah Cross serves as one of the more indelible and paradigmatic characters...
...recent years the ranks of decoration wearers in France have been swollen by purchasers of secondhand medals in flea markets. The lowest-ranking medal of the Legion of Honor, the "Chevalier," can be bought for $50 at the French government mint. There are, of course, penalties (up to two years in prison) for wearing unauthorized decorations, but these are seldom if ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend...