Word: turkishly
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...year ago, federal authorities had reason to believe that the lethal heroin traffic was at last slowing. Deaths related to heroin had fallen significantly in 1973. Prices on the average were up -a sure sign of scarcity-and on the East Coast particularly "white" heroin made from the Turkish opium poppy was in short supply. Government officials were confident that the number of users was declining nationwide...
European heroin dealers, who had stockpiled their remaining stashes of Turkish heroin in view of the shortage, released their goods in anticipation of renewed supplies from the coming harvest. Despite Turkish pledges to control processing of the new crop, U.S. drug enforcers predicted a serious increase in available heroin on American streets...
...Cyprus, only a fragile cease-fire separates angry Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Though the situation is considerably defused, Greece and Turkey are deeply suspicious of each other's intentions on the island. Both countries maintain large military forces along their common border...
...same attitudes-they might collectively be called punk psychotic-that animated the recent French film Going Places (TIME, June 10). Both movies share the same craving for shock value, the same dim idea that freedom and aggressive irresponsibility are the same. Going Places, however, remained anxiously airy throughout. In Turkish Delight, Director Paul Verhoeven and Writer Gerard Soeteman try to yank the rug right out from under the middle of the film, suddenly portraying everything that had seemed gay as a fierce and desperate stall against fate...
...respectful notices that this film received after its initial U.S. opening in Los Angeles are puzzling enough, but it has nowhere been noted that Turkish Delight represents a particularly vicious fantasy of sexual retribution. The wife cuts out on the husband-because he likes to copulate too much, she tells him later-and leads a miserable life, moving from one lover to another, looking freakier and acting freakier. The tumor, presumably, is the final punishment for her infidelity and desertion, and allows her wronged husband the priceless opportunity to be magnanimous, to forgive and to cherish. Her death gives...