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...news about narcotics far overshadows such success. The "skag" seized at the Brooklyn Bridge last week was the second large shipment of Asian heroin to be intercepted in New York. The first seizure came last November when a Philippine diplomat and his Chinese partner were arrested at Manhattan's Lexington Hotel with 38 Ibs. of heroin in their luggage. The two busts tend to confirm the gloomy forecasts of U.S. narcotics experts that as some of the old drug trade routes from Europe become more dangerous, new ones will open up from Asia. The emergence of Asia, with its immense...
...just one-step removed from inanity as Peter--played with a certain noncommittal grace by Robert F. Lyons--tells Susan, "I think (smile) we're getting to be pretty heavy dudes," while John's own girlfriend complains in the accent of the Seven Sisters, "I don't want any skag in my house." There's even an occasionally striking image--as when Peter and Susan, tripped-out strangers in Paradise, stand naked amongst the technical paraphernalia of a recording studio. But Williams' sense of self-amusement is simply too erratic...
...consumptive involvement with drugs--was actually only a means of getting deeper into the mire. He became a part of the ghetto's plankton, drifting in the flow of the demand and supply of junk and junk money. "By the time I was 16, I was so hooked on skag all I could see was drugs. When I saw dollar bills. I saw skag...
...today, was to offer no lease, wait for the artist to spend a few thousand dollars renovating the loft, and then arbitrarily double the rent. The pattern of exploitation worked because artists had nowhere else to go. There was no space uptown. Greenwich Village was already turning into the Skag Alley it now is, a tureen of thieving junkies and grimy plastic bars among the too-expensive brownstones. The East Village, with its tiny roach-filled apartments and manic adolescents shooting speed in the air shaft, was a dismal alternative. As for Brooklyn or Queens, one artist remarked: "You might...
...from bars, hotels and other businesses where drugs are known to be sold. But such measures have no effect on the thousands of other outlets, where most of the heroin is bought. A member of TIME's Saigon bureau asked a pedicab driver outside the U.S.O. club for "skag." After perfunctory hesitation ("You cop?"), the driver took the correspondent to a heroin source ten minutes away...