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Word: piping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East not only accommodates Western delusions but also compliments them with imitation. There are the lyrics of a popular Indian song inspired by a movie that found God in a hash pipe: "Take a drag. Take a drag. I'm wiped out./ Say it in the morning. Say it in the evening./ Hare Krishna Hare Rama Hare Krishna Hare Rama." There are also Western notions on better transcendence through chemistry. Mehta notes that young foreigners frequently sell their passports to buy drugs; the documents are reported stolen and easily replaced at local embassies. She also reports that villagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...Instead of going to Bermuda, a guy's going to buy a new pipe," Piper said...

Author: By Kenneth J. Ryan, | Title: Shoppers Hunting for Smaller Presents | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...radio and television interviews. He has also had an indirect boost from Buckminster Fuller, father of the geodesic dome. Says Shoji Sadao, Fuller's partner in the New York architectural firm of Fuller & Sadao: "Maybe we're getting out of the realm where this is just a pipe dream or visionary, and slowly getting into the realm of the practical." Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Dome for Winooski? | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...with his kids. I hear music when I see them-definitely strings." He even imagines himself angrily taking his case for male pregnancy to God, a bureaucrat behind a desk in the Revised Hoffman Version. " 'I don't understand,' I pipe up. 'Why don't I get to carry it?' " God tries to explain, but when Hoffman continues to complain, God brusquely ends the conversation: "I don't want to talk about it. I've spent a lot of time on this." When his own child Jenna was born, Hoffman did what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Father Finds His Son | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Harvard contracts large scale removals of asbestos from its sites, mostly in the form of ceiling tile and pipe insulation, to several different firms, Louis DiBerardinis, industrial hygenist for University Health Services, said yesterday...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Contractors Forced to Store Waste | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

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