Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major movie on an old theme-youth searching for where it's at. The props are familiar-drugs and motorcycles-but Director Dennis Hopper (who also co-stars with Peter Fonda) puts starch in what has become worn material. A brilliant performance by Newcomer Jack Nicholson, plus the use of hard-core Americans playing themselves, makes the youths' odyssey Homeric indeed...
...Ironically, the very people who have persistently claimed, without foundation, that marijuana leads to heroin have now set in motion a naive crusade to artificially drive the price of marijuana up in the hope that this will stem its use...
...interrogation involved his admitted sale of Army guns for personal profit. Turner acknowledged that, when he was provost marshal general and shortly after he retired, he had received 688 weapons confiscated by police and customs officials. At the time, he signed receipts saying the guns were for Army use, but in his testimony he insisted that the receipts were a mere "formality." Not so, said a spokesman for one of the donors, Chicago Police Superintendent James Conlisk: "The general is engaging in falsehood." Last June, seven of the weapons were seized as part of an illegal arms shipment to rebels...
...after a while, too many of the characters begin to sound exactly like Willie. The most glaring example is when Willie finds rapport with an ex-wife's nine-year-old daughter-and the basis of this rapport is as much the identical speech patterns Willie and the girl use as anything else...
Meyers then went up to block a high shot and succeeded in deflecting it over the net. But on the way down he had to use the bar on the front part of the net to keep his balance, breaking...