Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impressed with them. I guess you could call me a square. I usually don't go out more than three or four times during a road trip. I do okay with women. But most of the time I'd just rather get me a bottle of soda and a paper, watch some...
Those who manage to escape could be models for Goya's Disasters of War. The lucky ones get into already overfilled tent camps that reek of caustic soda disinfectant and human excrement, and are ankle deep in filthy water from the first monsoons. Most huddle under trees or bushes trying to avoid the heavy rains. Some find cramped quarters on the verandas of now closed schoolhouses. Others near Calcutta have found large open drainpipes to live in. Around them is always the stench of garbage, polluted water, sickness and death...
...cholera, particularly in West Bengal. A bacterial disease common to India and Pakistan, cholera causes severe vomiting and diarrhea, which bring dehydration and death. Those afflicted can usually be saved by replenishing the bodily fluids through intravenous injections or drinking large doses of a solution of salts, baking soda and glucose. But the flood of refugees is just too great to be handled by beleaguered medical teams...
...been afflicted with ice-creamania. Their per capita consumption, currently at 30 pints a year and still counting, has traditionally led the world. Though the invention of ice cream is usually credited to the Emperor Nero,* it was the U.S. that gave mankind the ice cream cone and the soda. Now there are signs of a fundamental shift in the frozen foundations of the Republic: Americans are beginning to turn a cold shoulder to the three pillars of their forefathers' frigid faith-chocolate, strawberry and vanilla -and flocking to flagrantly concupiscent flavors like Passion Fruit, Kumquat, Papaya, Sparkling Burgundy...
Obscenity and drug arrests had neutralized Lenny Bruce even before he died of an overdose of heroin in 1966. Few clubs would risk employing him. His lacerating attacks on social convention had evolved into convoluted harangues against the legal system that was successfully muffling him. He stuffed himself with soda and candy bars, a junkie's diet, and became fat. He undertook his own defense in court and, like a character out of Kafka, became lost before the law. His annual income in the late '50s and early '60s averaged $100,000; in 1965 he was legally...