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Destiny's child and Beaver's buddy met in 1964?smack in the poetic middle of Sunset Strip. It was business at first sight. As Raquel recalls it: "He saw me and I saw him, and we put our heads together." The result of this cerebral huddle was the creation?three weeks later?of Curtwel enterprises. Shortly thereafter, things began to happen. Bikini picture in LIFE. Billboard girl on ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace. Twentieth Century-Fox contract. Said Fox Talent Director Owen McLean: "We thought we would build her up slowly; that it would take some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Myra/Raquel: The Predator of Hollywood | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...Happiness Is A Warm Gun," Lennon was painting the world in despairing terms, and one of the central metaphors he used in that song was his guilt at the way he had treated his ex-wife Cynthia. He ended up that song advocating suicide, smack and nihilism. This time around Lennon is different, more at peace with himself and the world and advocating the same for everybody. Again the metaphor of his relationship with his ex-wife recurs and the difference in his handling of it shows exactly how he has changed. Thus, on side two of Abbey Road, which...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Beatles Abbey Road | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

...life any better for Ray and Alice's friends, even though it should. They set up a restaurant for Alice in the middle of Stockbridge, but it collapses in a marital spat between the Brocks. Shelly, a guy in the group who likes motorcycles, art and heroin, kicks the smack habit only to revert to it later on when he discovers that he can't have Alice for his very own. Arlo beats the draft only to realize that "the good things in [his] life seem to come out of not doing what [he] doesn't want to do." What...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Moviegoer Alice's Restaurant at the Cheri Two | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

HEROIN, also known as "scag" or "smack," is still the most hazardous. A true narcotic, relieving pain as well as producing sleep, it is the strongest of the opiates. These also include morphine and codeine, which doctors very often prescribe as painkillers in carefully measured doses. Heroin users, who administer their own doses, seek the white powder because it makes them feel physically warm and peaceful and raises their self-esteem and confidence. Large doses can sufficiently slow bodily functions to cause death; more commonly, heroin users develop abscessed veins and hepatitis from dirty needles, are undernourished and prone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pop Drugs: The High as a Way of Life | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...once, "Born Free" seemed totally at home. This was because Mike Nichols former partner. Elaine May, decided to put it smack in the middle of her play dedicated to the proposition that everyone on God's earth is born trapped...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Theatregoer Adaptation-Next at the Theatre Co. of Boston | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

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