Sentences with phrase «latest wonder drug»

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(NB: Cocaine was, at the time, considered a wonder drug — perhaps like bitcoin in more modern times — but was eventually condemned, made illegal, and deemed an «evil» by Holmes in later works.)

(In French and Arabic with subtitles) The Elephant King (R for drug use, violence, profanity and sexual content) Intervention drama about a young introvert (Tate Ellington), sent by his domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn) to Thailand to bring his decadent brother (Jonno Roberts) back to America, who finds himself falling in love for the first time with a local girl (Florence Faivre) while wondering whether he's arrived too late to save his self - destructive sibling.

Later, when Lee becomes a writer in Interzone, the transformations become even more dense and metaphorical: typewriters, for example, become talking cockroaches or Mugwumps (a Burroughs beastie that the film works wonders with, in New York and Interzone alike), functioning variously as Ugly Spirits, muses, prophets, psychiatrists, lovers, friends, bosses, and drug dispensers, so that writing, sex, and drugs become virtually interchangeable.