Word: opium
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Swept out of favor is the sexy image of '80s best sellers like Yves Saint Laurent's Opium and Klein's Obsession. The cry now is for romance. Lauder's ads for SpellBound simply show two people looking into each other's eyes. In a Vogue interview, Klein rhapsodized about days with his wife Kelly that have no edge and precious few events...
...religion, as Karl Marx once wrote, is "the opium of the people," in Utah it is the amphetamine. Thanks largely to the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- the Mormons -- Utah has become the envy of its neighbors. Other states are bogged down in recession, but Utah's economy is racing. Other states around the country are raising taxes and cutting services to balance their budgets, but Utah is enjoying a third straight budget surplus. Other states are having trouble attracting job- creating businesses, but in Utah they are flocking in from all over. What...
Richardson explores areas left untouched by earlier writers. Picasso and his girlfriend Fernande Olivier, for example, spent a good deal of their time between 1904 and 1908 high on opium, but the relevance of this to the empty- eyed, dreaming waif figures of the Rose Period had gone unnoted before. He does much to clear up the vexed question of Picasso's politics, pointing out -- contrary to recent theses on the subject -- that the anarchist ideas loose in the air of Barcelona had next to no provable effect on his work, and that as a young artist he was timorously...
...Andean governments have rejected U.S. State Department plans for wholesale eradication, arguing that such an approach would starve and radicalize hundreds of thousands of peasants for whom coca leaves are a valuable cash crop. Moreover, heroin is making a frightening comeback in some areas. Thanks to bumper crops of opium in insurgent-controlled northeastern Burma, Southeast Asian heroin traffickers are flooding New York and New Jersey with moderately priced, high-quality "China White...
...decades, religion was anathema to all good Soviets. Did not Marx teach that it was the "opium of the people"? Lenin himself wrote that the Russian Orthodox Church had to be suppressed, its treasure confiscated. But last week the hold of the atheistic Communist Party loosened a bit more as the state strengthened religious freedoms. With the Orthodox Patriarch, Alexei II, and other religious leaders watching, the Supreme Soviet, by a vote of 341 to 1, gave preliminary approval to a law that forbids the government to restrict "the study, financing or propagandizing" of religion...