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  Tobacco : the most dangerous drug in the world
Tobacco smoking had by now become such a commonplace habit throughout English society that Joverin de Rochefort, a French visitor, wrote in 1671 that in the town of Worcester children were sent to school with a pipe in their satchel.
Lord Petersham, perhaps the greatest snuff connoisseur of them all, owned a snuff box for every day of the year, and, on his death, left behind some £3,000-worth of snuff.
The snuff boxes of the era have become highly collectable objects on account of their intricate craftsmanship and the precious materials of which they were made.
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So bands that you would see in Australia that wanted to escape here or weren’t getting noticed would go and live in poverty in London, which is what bands like the Birthday Party and the Go Betweens, the Triffids and the Moodists all did to varying levels of success.
And that was just part of the fact that the producer was the son of one of England’s worst comedians.
The real problem was that I was never here, because I had the office in London and I had label licenses happening in Greece and Spain and Germany, and Rough Trade doing distribution in England, and I just never attended to what was going on here.
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London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1999.
London: Pidgeon Audio Visual, 1984 (24 slide set and sound cassette).
A poetic/dramatic bandw film on the history of the Mississippi and the consequences of farming and sharecropping resulting in continuous flooding due to clear-cutting and soil exhaustion; visualizes physical, social and psychological devastation.
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 Writer Info
Ric lives in the rural central Massachusetts town of Petersham with his wife, the cellist, Mary Carfagna.
He is also the poetry editor for the Chicago Review and editor of Beard of Bees Press.
She completed her MFA at the University of California, Irvine, in 1997 and for the same university is now working on her dissertation in Victorian literature.
www.moriapoetry.com /writer.htm   (12614 words)

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