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...Next, a disturbance at a 1970 rock concert led to charges of inciting resistance to police officers. A jury convicted, but an appeals court reversed. Then the cops got serious. They stopped Stoney's car late one night in 1972 and found in the glove compartment a tiny stash of marijuana. It was barely enough for one or two joints, but under Texas law at that time, it was also enough for life in prison...
...when he takes his family for an extended stay at the Rufus Arms, "the least pretentious and most expensive hotel in Lawnsmere," a pseudonymous Surrey town only a Times-crossword-puzzle by train from London. As Mark tells it in a sadder-but-wiser voice, the plan was to stash his family in the countryside while he commuted to the city to research a book about Sir Gordon Sandstone, a hero of the Boer...
When these elements are used as tools of comic construction, the results can be splendid parody, as in Cheech & Chong's TV quiz-show takeoff Let's Make a Dope Deal, "where young pushers try to parlay their stash into the reely big connection and move up into dealerhood." Unfortunately, the dope and dirty words too often seem intended to be funny in themselves, giggling passwords to separate "us" from "them...
Charley Varrick and Nadine used to have an airplane act. Nadine did a wing walk; Charley did some fancy stunting, acting drunk. When air circuses got scarce, Charley and Nadine set to supplementing their income by knocking over banks. Nothing big, just small Southwestern cheeseboxes in which local citizens stash their savings...
...should the Queen tell? All she is trying to do is stash a handbag in a comfortable position so that she may have her hands free to use the camera to take pictures of the elephants. Or hold a teacup...