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...Presidential Experience The trick is to exaggerate and extend it to a complete acidhead rendition and then have people say, "Yeah, he really says that." Once I convinced the audience that Bush really sounded like that, I knew I could do anything. Most of what I did was completely made up--so go figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Impersonating The President...A Ha-Ha Away From Power | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...lies slowly disintegrating in the desert, the law softens and bends, violence flourishes, youths rot their minds with chemicals. This is certainly not the country of Kazan's autobiographical novel America America, the young immigrant's dream and fulfillment. In the new book, a father tells his acidhead son, "If you want to live a big life, get a big cause," and the kid doesn't know what his father is talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadow of the Beast | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...took, the lousy pic- tures he made. He claimed that when he first viewed Tammy and the Doc- tor, he vomited. The bombing of The Victors and Lilith did not sweeten a pesonality that seemed to have sand under its skin. Reality was to be fled; Peter became the acidhead of the house. "In those days, it wasn't an il legal drug," he says. "It was pure, non-chromosome-breaking, non-habit-forming, nondangerous. So I dropped 500 micrograms and never came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Flying Fondas and How They Grew | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...result was a list of wage demands. Max consented, but in a Steppenwolf mood decided to sell the paper. Enter Timothy Leary and a rich friend who came to town to talk about buying the Barb for $250,000 and turning it into a psychedelic-trip sheet for the acidhead community. Oh, no!, exclaimed the tribe, which wanted to make the paper into a kind of revolutionary New York Times. Leary and friend then became "honest brokers," suggesting that Max sell the paper to the tribe- for $1,000 a week for 140 weeks, plus interest. The tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Tribe Is Restless | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

After hearing this story, one of the green recruits, an acidhead who had been sleeping in an aspen grove, sat up and said, "Well, it's time to earn a few more dollars." He rolled over again and earned his next $3.75 by sleeping for an hour...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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