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...smokers were getting their kicks, they used to lie down and smoke their pipes, throwing their weight on one hip. Thus, someone smoking opium was termed 'on the hip.' Years later American jazz musicians took up the word, applying it indiscriminately to anyone on drugs. In the present-day vernacular, it suggests looking beyond the camouflage of everyday reality, usually with the help of LSD and pot, but not always...
...felt that it was particularly dangerous because it was not enacted as a simple statute, but was embodied in the state constitution. To put it there, Californians resorted to the basic democratic principle of initiative and referendum. To remove it would take a similar referendum, and in the present-day U.S., argued Marshall, "you don't get referendums without hard-earned cash and plenty of it. In no state do minority groups have statewide power...
...narrow as a rice stalk, so emaciated that he sometimes seems to have two profiles in search of a face. But Hidari radiates a beggar's joie de vivre, in contrast to the boredom of the well-to-do. Thus he underlines the film's theme: in present-day privileged society, the cost of the good life is charged to the spirit...
...light and shadows on the surfaces of sculpture, reflect from pigments to give the eye its impression of form and color. But in traditional art, color is constant, not kinetic. And even the purest oil or watercolor pigments inevitably reflect not pure color, but a mixture of colors. The present-day luminist's dream of both movement and purity has had to await the 20th century, with the full development of the incandescent bulb, the fluorescent tube and the movie projector, which has made the sustained use of artificial light possible...
Applying his formula to later rallies and checking it against photographs that he himself took, Jacobs discovered that such present-day spellbinders as Stokely Carmichael and Bettina Aptheker were not drawing nearly so well as the estimates would indicate. Once again, he had shown that reporters from the newspapers were doubling and tripling actual attendance...