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...million Americans pay $20 billion annually for 66,000 lbs. of the stuff, and Colombia provides about 80% of it. It is the fashionable drug among movie stars, pop singers and jet-setters. As Robert Sabbag wrote in Snow Blind, his hip account of the cocaine trade: "To snort cocaine is to make a statement. It is like flying to Paris for breakfast." Those who have been arrested for possessing it include Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richard, New York Rangers Forward Don Murdoch, TV Star Louise Lasser, Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and one of the owners of Manhattan...
...best-tasting grass," says one participant, "you might win a bottle of wine; for the best-smelling grass, a snort of cocaine. It's a lot of fun and everybody's relieved that they made it through the season...
...songs--the film was a big hit. Ten years later it's difficult to see why. The animation is quite good, the colors are splendid, but only a rock-ribbed Beatlemaniac could love this movie. Druggies beware, though. Our sources claim that this is a great movie to trip, snort, smoke, shoot, or see God with. For children of all ages...
...executives, that is wrongheaded reliance on Government fiat. The emphasis, they think, should be put on increasing production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by granting energy companies more incentives. David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., a maker of measuring instruments, says with a snort that Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who put the program together, "doesn't have the brains God granted a goose about the way the economic system is supposed to work...
...Eskimos carve sea lions, bears, fish and birds. The forms are sinuous, graceful and smoothly polished. Every detail is included from curving, scimitar tusks to flippers braced against a rock. One sculpted walrus seems almost about to snort and lumber into the water with the gigantic plosh of several tons of blubber. After stalking these creatures for centuries the hunter-artists sculpt them with a combination of humor...