Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Jim Morrison, 27, lead singer of the Doors and the third big rock star to die within ten months; in Paris. Although Morrison at times drank heavily, he did not have a reputation as a drug user, and he died of a heart attack. The son of an admiral, Morrison got a master's degree from UCLA before beginning to intone his long, theatrical poems to dark, eerie, thundering rock. His orgiastic performances and his command, "Come on, baby, light my fire," turned on teeny-boppers by the millions, but his mood was often more apocalyptic: "Cancel...
Adjusted to the eye color of the wearer and programmed to ignore such involuntary actions as blinking, the switch allows the user to start, stop and reverse his wheelchair by practiced movements of his left eye, and to turn it by moving his right. Currently being tested at a veterans' hospital in New York City and rehabilitation centers in Los Angeles and Houston, the Sight Switch -which costs $700 to $900-is remarkably easy to operate, even for the untrained. As one built-in safety feature, the computer is programmed to switch off the motor and bring the chair...
...slowly, to her knees she recites a ritual of masculine domination: "You have ... an inner power so great that every act, no matter what, is more proof of that power." If the text varies by so much as a word, Jonathan cannot achieve orgasm. The great swordsman, the contemptuous user of women, has become impotent...
...that point," says Bothmer, "it clicked. If the broken statue of Ny-user-ra in Cairo had no arm on its right hip, the arm must have been raised. That described the Rochester fragment." At Bothmer's request, Cairo made a plaster cast of its piece and shipped it to New York. When Bothmer placed the Rochester bust on Ny-user-ra's legs, it fitted exactly. The completed statue is now on display at the Brooklyn Museum -and the Pharaoh looks a lot more pharaonic in one piece than...
...baptized were young, tanned and casual in cut-off blue jeans, pullovers and even an occasional bikini. A freshly dunked teenager, water streaming from her tie-dyed shirt, threw her arms around a woman and cried, "Mother, I love you!" A teen-age drug user who had been suffering from recurring unscheduled trips suddenly screamed, "My flashbacks are gone!" As the baptisms ended, the crowd slowly climbed a narrow stairway up the cliff, singing a moving Lord's Prayer in the twilight...