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Those who sniffed became ill, and nine hours later the band's drummer, Robbie Mclntosh, 24, was dead of a heroin overdose. Cher, who didn't take a snort, is credited with saving Bassist Alan Gorrie's life by walking him around all night, preventing him from lapsing into a coma. Last week it was revealed that a Los Angeles County grand jury had charged Moss, whose last address was British Honduras, with murder. Ironically, Robbie's last single with the band, Pick Up the Pieces, is currently heading for the top of the charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 3, 1975 | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...walls, filled with Nittany Lion stickers, Penn State schedules, art-deco posters of Paterno, autographed pictures of the local stars, speak for themselves. Soon, inevitably, the men watch as the provincial "punks" snicker, scoff and snort about whichever bowl Penn has "bullshat its way into this year," and about whichever regional favorite of theirs could "boot the Nits out of the Top Fifty." After allowing enough time for the rhetoric to billow up and fog the windows over completely, the men call, silently, for bet-backed talk or a little silence from the visitors. The bowl stakes, as well...

Author: By Robert T. Garrettt and Michael K. Savit, S | Title: Lining Up for the Post-Season Bowls | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...meditation is the Divine Name, which crops up in references to the Christian logos and to the name of Krishna . . . another essence, a divine nectar, so fills some devotees at times, Rennie continues, that they need no other food or drink (this piece of information brings a collective snort from half the audience) . . . on Davis goes, weaving together bits of thoughts, myth, half-truths and whole- into a charming pattern so rational that even the cynics are impressed...

Author: By Charles M Kahn, | Title: Rennie Davis and the Guru | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...long, of course. When a usual dose (one snort into each nostril) of cocaine wears off in about an hour, the user may have a hangover of depression. There are medical and legal hazards as well; possession of cocaine is a felony. These grim facts have not stopped some enclaves of the bored and beautiful set from making the inhaling of coke a status cult. Since cocaine for a dozen people can cost as much as $600, depending on the quality and scarcity of the drug, the hostess of that recent East Side party was showing her friends that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tyrannical King Coke | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore of the Senate, prompting the Capitol's most prominent Dixiecrat (Burgess Meredith) to snort "the White House doesn't seem near white enough for me tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A House Divided | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

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