Benzedrine

1 Suppose we were a bit high—keyed up with the Benzedrine, rattling through the French countryside in the moonlight, people we love and work with disappearing around us like burnt-out sparklers.

2 But everything tends to look too pretty here — the scenery, sets and costumes included, especially for the rougher byways and more perilous interludes, like the Benzedrine nights that feel more opiated than hopped up.

3 Bradley was amazed that Benzedrine, a forerunner of Ritalin and Adderall, was such a great normalizer, turning typically hard-to-manage kids into models of complicity and decorum.

4 Before V-E night is through, Freya will lead Nancy to her father’s flat, ply her with whisky and Benzedrine and put “I Only Have Eyes for You” on the gramophone.

5 The characters in this willfully anemic Atlantic Theater Company production, which opened on Monday night at the Linda Gross Theater in Manhattan, make Chekhov’s most stagnant no-hopers feel like Pollyannas on Benzedrine.

6 Of the Olympus-style pantheon of dead writers toasting with whiskey and Benzedrine in the heavens, Oscar Wilde, I’m willing to bet, would have the most Insta followers.

7 In any medium, Mr. James was compulsively loquacious, turning out essays, memoirs and novels between his countless TV appearances, like a “Benzedrine addict being held at gunpoint.”

8 The two took Benzedrine to keep alert; they didn’t want to get caught sleeping on the job.

9 Decades later, in the New Yorker, writer James Kaplan likened Mr. Lewis onstage to “a chimp on Benzedrine.”

10 As we meet them, they are getting into business with a demanding Benzedrine inhaler-sniffing Shirley Temple knockoff named Sally Sweet, which does not augur well for future success.

11 But it’s doubtful that Mr. Raab, an expressive singer and gifted piano player whose most recognizable song, for better or worse, was “Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine,” coined the term.

12 “You’re either crawling all over them, licking their boots, or spitting poison at them like some Benzedrine puff adder.”

13 “He had the metabolism of Bugs Bunny on Benzedrine.”

14 Ever since 1937, when Dr. Charles Bradley discovered that children who displayed symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity responded well to Benzedrine, a stimulant, we have been thinking about this “disorder” in almost the same way.

15 "You know you can just pull the tape off," said Daniel as Sam began hacking at the box like a trainee warehouse worker on Benzedrine.

1 安非他明

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2 苯丙胺

B amphetamine truckdriver

3 苯齐巨林

whizz

4 苯异丙胺

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