Word: valium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grisly certainty. But no one in the hospital, including the kindly chief of staff (Richard Widmark), will take her seriously. Her lover, a crass young intern (Michael Douglas) who looks as if he will make a great golfer some day, keeps saying "I know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either. Is he one of the nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains strap Bujold to the operating table for an appendectomy she needs like a hole in the abdomen, will she survive to put makeup...
...taken in the Los Angeles Superior Court in cases to determine Hughes' legal residence, is becoming public-and it only confirms and elaborates the worst suspicions about his decline and death. According to sworn testimony from his personal aides and doctors, Howard Hughes became addicted to the tranquilizer Valium. As a total recluse living in a series of penthouse hideaways, he popped large-dosage 10-mg. blue tablets, which his personal aides faithfully recorded as BBs (for blue bombers) in the daily log that they kept on his activities. On many occasions, Hughes gulped as much...
Still, what seems mellow to Silverman would send most people rushing for the Valium, and Freddie cannot walk past a TV set without stopping. Like Captain Caveman, everything he sees he devours, and nearly everything...
There are as many reasons to love Trollope as there are people who read him. High on the list is his magical ability to soothe: by rough and arbitrary calculation, 25 pages of Barchester Towers are equal to a 5-mg. Valium, while 15 pages of Can You Forgive Her? are worth two Miltowns. The intricate struggles for power within the Anglican Church and the Victorian crises of conscience are interesting but not unduly exciting, absorbing but not all-involving. Best of all, the stories go on seemingly forever and satisfy the modern taste for family sagas -just look...
...Hughes was hooked on drugs. After he moved into the penthouse atop Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1966, he was consuming vast amounts of Empirin and later Valium. While beneficial for headaches and nervousness when taken in small amounts, overdosage causes doziness and mental lapses. Later Hughes began openly injecting himself?often in the groin?with hypodermics rilled with a clear fluid. Stewart and Margulis do not know what the syringes contained, but they observed the effects: Hughes would become drowsy and incoherent. His drugs, "my medication," were kept in a metal box that was always taken with him. Whenever...