Sentences with phrase «drug culture»

Sure, it's been done before, but it is this continual special effect that makes the movie more than just an everyday drug culture film.

The problem is, the NFL always has had a kind of drug culture.

The state Gaming Commission is proposing a set of sweeping new rules aimed at combating what the group's executive director described as the «entrenched drug culture in horse racing.»

Several works featured in the solo exhibition called on traditional folk art forms to narrate the complexities of underground drug cultures infused with violence and shiny objects paid for with obscene amounts of ill - gotten gain.

Neuroethicist Wrye Sententia, acting director and cofounder of the nonprofit Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics (CCLE), responds that fears of a new drug culture à la the «tune in, turn on, drop out» 1960s just do not apply to the modern better - living - through - chemistry model.

There is a hope that the entactogenic and psychedelic agents, once demonised in the wake of the 1960s drug culture, may now begin again to have an important new role in the treatment of anxiety disorders in the future.

Instead of condemning Hoffman, we should find ways to celebrate him — we should feel anger at the culture which enabled his demise, and we should appropriately critique drug culture.

Your idea of «freedom» was shown by the hippy drug culture.

In court papers, Bloomberg LP denies that there is a Bloomberg drug culture — and all other allegations.

Vast and underpopulated, it is largely free of the teeming slums, war zones, and inner - city drug cultures that epidemiologists say are typical niches for the human immunodeficiency virus.

Not quite so thought out is the parallel drug cultures: the harmless stoners (though I wonder if all that driving under the influence is really all that harmless) and the predatory underworld gangs growing and distributing the marijuana.

It is a movie about drug culture, about Portland and the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, and about the reliable marketability of pretty young actors playing outlaws.

Bizarrely, there's overt drug culture humor, notably when Gandalf, seeking to calm an agitated Radagast the Brown (a comic Sylvester McCoy), gives him a relaxing toke on his pipe (Radagast's eyes cross blissfully).

Kate (Jennifer Ehle, «Fifty Shades of Grey»), spectacularly portrayed as a troubled drug - dealer looking for an escape, and her bohemian girlfriend, Savannah (Heather Graham, «My Dead Boyfriend») play some key residents whose surf and drug culture lifestyle fully embrace the typical chilled stoner mentality.

But this year, the festival will open with «Free Ride,» a taut tale of a hard - luck single mom ensnared in the South Florida drug culture in the 1970s.

In adapting Irvine Welsh's ode to 90s drug culture, Boyle confronted the wretched as well as the wondrous in life for the first and only time in his career.

Biopic centering on Roger Corman's making of The Trip, the 1967 drug culture chronicle authored by neophyte screenwriter Jack Nicholson.

However, rather than traditional floral and geometric motifs, these vases boast modern hieroglyphs of Mexican and Norteño drug culture - marijuana leaves, guns, skulls, pin - up models, bottles of liquor, packs of cigarettes, and animals that symbolize specific drugs: the rooster, marijuana; the goat, heroin; and the parrot, cocaine.

Using a broad formal language inspired by Byzantine icons, Nineties - era Eastern European drug culture, the psychedelic - revolutionary aesthetics of the Seventies, minimalism, and art brut, the towels and drawings function as Trojan horses for a wide range of subtle, complex, and quietly rebellious erotic motives.

It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate choice than Glaser for the jacket design of Tom Wolfe's account of late - 1960s psychedelic drug culture through the experience of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.

Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe create immersive environmental installations that play on ideas of drug culture, psychedelia, architecture and film.

Durazo's installation consists of audio clips, video projections, posters, collage, music and other works meant to arouse the sensation of the underground drug culture and challenge society's desensitized attitude towards the legal and illegal drug trades by inspiring dialogue on a local, national and global level.

Will it spawn a new drug culture?

They experienced the rise of everything from disco, punk and hip - hop to hippies, preppies and yuppies to the drug culture and the war on drugs.

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

Actually, what's ironic is that the «secular» rebellion against society that seemed to culminate in the 60's free love and drug culture was actually religiously inspired.

The importance of the drug culture among them suggests otherwise.

@Anglican: How do you know if you arent apart of the drug culture?

They have provided a stable social setting and a coherent set of symbols for young people disoriented by the drug culture or disillusioned with radical politics.

Later in the same decade, a flurry of experimentation with Eastern religions and meditation techniques in the company of political activism and the drug culture led some to speculate that the demise of modernity was at hand, bringing with it (as in all social crises) a return to the sacred.

Jobless and nearly broke, Liston had been moving through the murkier waters of Las Vegas's drug culture.

But opponents point to the effects of Amsterdam's crowded red light district and the drug culture that flourishes there.

Some argue that the impact of these psychoactive substances has been underestimated, and that a drug culture was central to ritual in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, and the Levant.

That's why we've developed such a drug culture.

The researchers also note, as the data is drawn from web surveys, there will be biases inherent in the respondents — the ones who chose to respond may be more experienced in the drug culture, and as such may not be representative of the wider population, so it is important not to interpret the findings reported as prevalence estimates.

It's worth remembering that the term «feel - good» grew out of the drug culture.

Though the drug culture spoof included inspired moments of Kids lunacy, particularly Thompson's spectacular «coming out» musical number, Brain Candy failed at the box office and the Kids disbanded.

The bonus material on the Season Six set includes an interactive gallery, a look into the drug culture of the «60s and the show's production design.

(Substitute her infatuation for Edward with a fascination for the drug culture or a compulsive eating disorder or a passion for a boy who routinely drinks and drives, and suddenly the plot isn't quiet so entertaining.)

THE MOVIE The New York City of 1971 is certainly not The Big Apple we know today: trash litters the streets, hookers and pimps are seemingly everywhere, and the drug culture celebrates intercourse with a smoke and a snort.

A medley of two zippy Jazz Age ditties, «Wacky Dust» and «When I Get Low, I Get High» — first popularized by the young Ella Fitzgerald — playfully sends up drug culture.

It helps that he is directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, the latter taking a major role in the Safdies» latest, because the Safdies, who in «Heaven Knows What» are tuned into the street-wise and the drug culture.

As the voiceover at the beginning of the film suggests, Bell's morals are those of another time, and he grows ever wearier of the drug culture that is just starting to become a problem in 1980s Texas.

In Yardie, a young Jamaican (Aml Ameen) watches his peace - loving brother gunned down, and grows up torn between embracing his brother's ideals, or immersing himself in gang and drug culture to seek revenge.

This is part of Dick's original story, but I got bored with the random diversions into the long - winded conversations of the drug culture.

Director Rodman Flender (Leprechaun 2, The Unborn) still appears to be cutting his teeth on the horror genre while retaining a high body count and shamelessly flaunting the drug culture.

An oftimes crude and farcical combination of horror, drug culture, and philosophical sci - fi, it's a film you won't entirely grasp until you've seen it for yourself.

It's still a lively watch, especially in the way its meandering, episodic first half emphasises the highs of pub fights, drugs scores, casual sex and a sub-aqua, Eno - scored mission down the world's most disgusting lavatory bowl, only for the second half to condemn the drug culture that so many claimed it was glamourising.