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...most part, I stopped smoking marijuana in the mid-1970s because I grew bored with ending too many social evenings lying on somebody's living- room rug, staring at the ceiling and saying, "Oh, wow!" This renunciation was not a wrenching moral decision, but rather an aesthetic rite of passage as my palate began to savor California Chardonnay with the avidity I once reserved for Acapulco Gold. Yet as an aging baby boomer, my attitudes remain emblematic of that high-times generation that once freely used soft drugs and still feels more nostalgic than repentant about the experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Feeling Low over Old Highs | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...know how he dealt with living in our room.Holworthy 9 is on the first floor, which meantthat everyone in the entryway would stop by for awhile on their way upstairs. Many would bringfood, some of which inevitably ended up on ourrug. The food that didn't hit the rug insteadwould hit the piles of pizza boxes and newspapersthat lasted for weeks on our floor...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Learning to Deal With a Planned Marriage | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

Khong says the U.S. should be aware of Japan, and Ulam says, "I think to some extent the Reagan administration kept pushing problems under the rug, and those problems--Japan, Western Europe--they all come...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: A New Age of Soviet-American Relations | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

Witness #1: Abul Haj, arms dealer and rug merchant...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Iran-a-Muk | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

...example is a shot photographed from an extremely low angle of the lawn in front of a typical suburban house. There's rug lying on the lawn and a young girl, dressed in a tutu is simultaneously doing a pliee and vacuuming the carpet. The colors are bright and the girl's motion is jerky, bizarre. The voiceover intones, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Stomping on Individualism | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

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