Word: pusher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less. He has carried a handbag for years. "I don't see how people get along without some sort of little satchel," he says. "Mine's really a medical bag," he explains. "When people ask me what's in it I say I'm a pusher." What does he carry in it, then? "I keep my money in it. And a book, in case I have to wait for someone. And the papers I'm working on. And four or five pairs of glasses. And a toothbrush and toothpaste, because you never know where...
From the motorcycle subculture movies Hopper has brought rock music, but instead of The Ventures he has given us known songs by top rock artists. Attempting no structural integration between sound and image, his musical allusions are literary: Hoyt Axton's "The Pusher" after they make their connection. Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" as they hit the road on their bikes. Billy and Wyatt travel through these pulsating songs the way they do the countryside-the Band, the Byrds, Dylan, Jimi Hendrix et al are employed as a musical landscape, part of the backdrop of the youth subculture...
...most Harvard freshmen are left with very little to do. There are always drugs, of course. As long as you're not a flagrant pusher. Harvard will keep you safe from the nares. (In fact, I'm sure many an administrator welcomed the advent of grass as one way to defuse revolutions.) Consequently, grass is plentiful, and cheap, mostly sold by Cliffies who don't need the money because their fathers live in Westchester and have all the money they need. But even drugs are becoming passe. They used to be the major social determinant of freshman year. There were...
...still considers Vidal an "evangelist for bisexuality" whose "essays proclaim the normalcy of his affliction and his art the desirability of it." He is "not to be confused with the man who bears his sorrow quietly. The addict is to be pitied and even respected, not the pusher...
...students, one an ex-addict and the other an ex-pusher, testified on heroin use in the suburbs, which they said was growing rapidly...