Word: pusher
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...girl shoots up and frazzles her mind until woolly monsters push through the top of her skull. The artwork in Bogeyman is the best in the series, coming to an uncanny height in the gaunt faces of terminal addicts, particularly a drawing of a boy who has discovered the pusher has given him crystalline battery acid instead of heroin...
...Rockefeller campaign once again is evidence that he is willing to spend whatever it takes to spread his message: "He's done a lot-he'll do more." Both the money and the message show in his highly skillful, frequently shown television ads. One depicts a drug pusher behind bars, put there, the ad says, by Rockefeller. Another shows an audience falling asleep during a lecture on sewage treatment, making the point that the subject is not interesting, just important, and Rockefeller is taking care of it. Rockefeller will soon step up his TV campaign with an altered...
...rewards, which do not exclude members of law enforcement agencies, would pay $10,000 for information that convicts a major supplier and $1000 for information that convicts a street pusher. The legislation is on the docket for Monday night's City Council meeting...
...laughter, interminable rapping, impromptu guitar-plucking, the blare of transistor radios, and finally a makeshift concert by nondescript local bands, with amplifiers powered by two ice-cream trucks. The most distinctive note was the brash hawking of drugs. "Good black hashish for $3.50!" shouted one youth. Countered a bearded pusher: "Buy one tab of acid and get a free tab of smack!" Kids on bad trips were treated by volunteer physicians, and were urged over a makeshift public-address system to "bring a few joints for the doctors." As the week progressed, drug abuse became a serious problem. Hundreds...
Mitch Goodman, who was managing editor of the CRIMSON under Calkins, reminisces. "In the forties we didn't understand what a little pusher Calkins was. We were taken by his enormous propriety. His character at Harvard was that of a well-trained student guy who doesn't fuck around. He's the perfect example of a man not really upper-class, but a semi-decayed pilgrim descendant who had to make good on his own. He's the prime example of the paragon good boy-never made a mistake...