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When Jack Kerouac took the oldfashioned track west to never-neverland in On the Road, he became pie-eyed piper to a footloose segment of the postwar Beat Generation, advancing, it was assumed, into the future...
...Young Albert is made a paper-thin storybook hero while Perkins, with no Hitchcock to guide him, mopes through his small starring role with an air of boyish menace that might easily be mistaken for sulking. Both actors seem to have been set adrift in a poetic but implausible neverland where Tom Sawyer tangles tales with Psycho...
Literature abounds with testimonials by narcotics addicts-De Quincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire, Cocteau-to the beauties of the neverland to which their favorite dope has transported them. Most medical textbooks have copied each other's statements that the effect of narcotics is uniformly pleasant. But most people who try a couple of shots out of curiosity find the effects (including nausea and vomiting) so unpleasant that they stop right there. Only a few persist and become slaves to the drugs. Why the difference? Three researchers at Harvard Medical School suspected that to become an addict, an individual needs not only...
...Texas Neverland of poor millionaires, a faded parchment heads the list of valuables. This is the Lone Star Resolution of 1838 which claims that the Texas coastline and three leagues seaward belong to the state. Since this area includes the oil-rich tidelands property, the resolution could eventually cost the Treasury $250 billion dollars...