Word: pills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which saintly asceticism is practiced out of sheer lust for adulation. Kundera also introduces a character named Jakub, a former political prisoner who believes that the only true freedom in his country is the freedom to commit suicide. To remind himself of this pathetic option, he keeps a poisoned pill with him at all times...
Weird Display. Sex, however, is far from the only theme of the new theater of the bazaar. One Bendel window showed a woman gone mad, clawing at the walls. Another scene had several women staring at an apparent suicide surrounded by pill bottles. Occasionally everyday realism makes an appearance. One Candy Pratts kitchen scene for Bloomingdale's featured a real smashed raw egg on the floor, which had to be sponged up every night...
There are other objects that could convey to future Americans the majesty and the trivia, the glory and the pity of the current era. Some proposals: a la ser rod and a citizen's band radio; the Pill and Gatorade; a shoe from Natalia Makarova and a Frisbee; a Beatles' record and a segment from the Watergate tapes; a Big Mac hamburger and a chunk of moon rock. It says something about the vitality, not to say incoherence of the times, that the list could be endless - and fascinating in its contrasts...
...County, Ohio, late Wednesday night and took an undetermined amount of Dalmane. The next morning his wife Pat could not rouse him. He was rushed to an intensive care unit by ambulance. At first, Phillips insisted that the weakened Hays, who is 65, had merely overreacted to a Dalmane pill. After the patient was out of danger, the doctor had another reading: "There is no question that he overdosed, but to say whether it was accidental or purposeful at this time would be pure speculation." Associates both in Ohio and on Capitol Hill said that Hays had been despondent...
...also sold in pill form under various labels, including vitamin...