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...According to Personal Aide Howard Eckersley, the liquid was a codeine solution. Hughes, who called the drugs "my goodies," would toss a codeine tablet into a water-filled hypodermic and shake the syringe until the pill melted. Then he would give himself a shot; if he could find a vein in his wizened body, he would mainline the injection...
...which could be devoted to developing a broader perspective. He cites Japan as one industrialized, oil-starved nation which has avoized any complicity in the arms market, but he does not study this anomaly in order to offer any morals to the rest of the world. In a similar vein, he outlines former President Richard M. Nixon's mistake in granting the Shah's colossal arms requests, but he fails to explore the deeper diplomatic ramifications of the arms trade. Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.) often cites the importance of the arms industries in providing jobs, but Sampson never...
...COULD a Berkowitz kill a Moskowitz?" the interviewer asks Shelley Duvall as they find their table in a New York restaurant. The latest issue of Andy Warhol's Interview continues in this tasteless vein for 48 pages of newsprint that would like to be glossy, and contains gossip that would like to be sophisticated. It ends up sounding like People magazine, except that artsy condescension replaces human interest...
...barriers to communication, was a liberator of language. When Bruce ripped through his monologue, his audience could do one of two things: laugh in self-conscious embarassment or leave in a huff. The early '60s comedian--probably the most controversial in the trade's history--mined a rich, dark vein of American humor; he dug for the mother lode--religion, race, drugs, sex, morals. He rooted through the secret and sordid alleys of the subconscious, exposing them to an unsettlingly clear light...
...KEEPING COOL. I have not yet felt the President's anger. I'm told there is a blue vein that starts throbbing. I haven't seen it yet, though I suspect it is there. But I'm still alive...