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...police say Pryor told them that the accident occurred while he was "free-basing" cocaine. This newly fashionable practice involves purifying the coke by mixing it with highly flammable ether, which, when it evaporates, leaves coke crystals that burn with a steady flame and are smoked through a water pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Can't Stop! | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

Examples of Soviet-style conservatism are widespread. The Soviet chemical industry was reportedly unable to replace corrosion-prone cast iron pipes with more up-to-date plastic piping because no factory could be persuaded to make the lighter product. Reason: pipe production quotas are set by GOSPLAN in tons, and any factory that switched from cast iron to plastic pipe output would immediately fall behind in its production quotas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pitfalls In the Planning | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...Miami police officers admitted that some members of the department had reacted unprofessionally to the widespread looting. Several policemen walked into a shopping center parking lot at around 11:30 p.m. and systematically smashed the windshields of 14 unoccupied cars with billy clubs, rifle butts and pieces of pipe. They slashed tires and spray-paint-ed LOOTER, THIEF and I AM A CHEAP NO GOOD LOOTER on the vehicles. Claimed Joe Sheely, 26, a resident of the neighborhood: "They were getting a kick out of it." Four Miami police officers were suspended from duty for the vandalism, and Miami Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fire and Fury in Miami | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...gray-brown plasma, the color of fiddle backs, zinc bars and smokers' fingers. Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves?a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism's modernity. It declared that all visual experience could be set forth as a shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting's unconscious answer to the theory of relativity or to the principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Show of Shows | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

Hopkins responded with two to go ahead for the first time 6-5. Davis dodged right to left on an overload and then went down the pipe to tie it up at 6-6 and close the first half...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Blue Jays Strong-Arm Laxmen, 16-12 | 5/23/1980 | See Source »

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