Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OPIUM AND THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION by Althhea Hayter. 388 pages. University of California...
...eight-room West Tower penthouse whose walls are completely covered with dark green Vermont marble-giving their apartment a curiously tomblike atmosphere. Capote's apartment features a red-on-red dining room ("Like a hot raspberry tart," he says), and a prominently displayed pink china jar labeled "Opium," which was a housewarming gift from Jacqueline Kennedy...
...definitive zombie Hamlet, a puppet rather than a mettlesome prince-passionless, prideless and bloodless. So supine is this Hamlet that he lies on the floor of the stage literally for minutes on end, making one wonder if he is in the royal castle at Elsinore or in an opium...
Died. Fairleigh Dickinson III, 19, Columbia University freshman and an heir to the family's surgical-equipment fortunes, which enabled the Dickinsons to found and build New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University; of a reported overdose of an opium derivative and LSD; in a friend's dormitory room on the school's Manhattan campus...
...lead him to crime, they hit upon methadone. It is a synthetic painkiller, widely prescribed for cancer patients and for people who have undergone surgery. Such prescriptions are not renewable, since it is undeniably addicting. But physical dependence on methadone is less stubborn than that on heroin or other opium derivatives, and patients who take it do not experience either euphoric highs or hellish lows. Moreover, methadone costs only about 10$ a dose, in bulk...