Word: novocain
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...clinic for communist soldiers in the jungles of Quang Ngai, in what was then South Vietnam, and began keeping a diary shortly after arrival. "Operated on one case of appendicitis with inadequate anesthesia," reads her first entry, dated April 8, 1968. "I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once ... He even smiled to encourage...
...began with an innocent guitar/bass duet and ended with each band member convulsing in his own private seizure, screaming, "I'm a believer, I'm a believer." "Hum" ended the set as a mildly regretful meditation on modern music: "In my mouth is a hurricane/I'm bored, I use Novocain.../Hum along and regret it." After a string of mediocre opening acts, one featuring a miffed Charles-in-Charge playing loungey guitar rip-offs, the wild-eyed sincerity of The Sheila Divine was as invigorating as a blast of pure oxygen...
...this rate, soon we'll be offered a plan where the premium doesn't rise but you perform your own minor surgery at home. Novocain? Supply your...
Once in the U.S., cocaine is diluted at each step in the distribution chain, usually with vegetable starches or anesthetics like Novocain. A typical retail gram of "cocaine" is only about 15% pure, although concentrations as high as 40% and as low as zero are not unusual. The price markup from dockside to coffee table is roughly ten times...
...film is shot with a clumsiness that often falls over the line into incompetence, and the general lack of conviction acts like a shot of Novocain administered to every frame. "Seal off the banana fields!" someone cries in the midst of the final chase, but, aside from that choice addition to the world's treasury of silly movie lines. Firepower is entirely lacking in entertainment value...