Word: narcoticized
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Frank Sinatra: At first there were only the bony fingers on the screen snapping out the electric rhythms against a black backstop. Then the camera pulled back to pick up the little man with the zooty clothes, the sad, sunken face and the glandular voice that coiled around Lonesome Road...
On Guadalcanal Barney holds a strong point alone against hundreds of Japanese, kills 22 of them and saves the life of a wounded buddy. His reward: the Silver Star and a dose of malignant malaria. For the skull-shattering headaches that accompany the first bouts of fever, medics prescribe morphine...
He cannot see, even for a moment, through another's eyes, and so modification of his own vision is impossible. Instead, he hears, classifies, and reacts to the ready-made categories, ad infinitum. Loneliness is a narcotic, and like a narcotic we find it very difficult to escape, despite our...
One of the big problems plaguing law-enforcement officers dealing with narcotics addicts is how to determine quickly and conclusively whether a suspect is or is not on drugs. Most seasoned addicts are expert at concealing needle marks (sometimes with tattoos). Although addicts show withdrawal symptoms (goose flesh, yawning, nausea...
Otto Luening, professor of Music at Columbia, prefaced a summary of experimental and electronic music with remarks about the unfortunate fads for "background music," which pours forth while you do something else, for "narcotic music," which is turned down low as a soporific, and for "fixed music," which results from...