And that, I think, was the handle.
4 seconds sound clip from the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:56:24 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- San Francisco in the middle '60s was a very special time and place to be a part of...
- There was madness in any direction - at any hour.
- You could strike sparks anywhere.
- There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
- And that, I think, was the handle.
- That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil.
- Not in any mean or military sense - we didn't need that.
- Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum.
- We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
- So now, less than five years later - you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west...
[...]