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...Manhattan's Lower East Side. This menacing tangle of burned-out buildings, clammy tenements and garbage-strewn vacant lots is one of the country's most notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd the blighted 15-by four-block "town" 24 hours a day, dispensing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, angel dust and an array of other drugs. The Captain, in his 40s, is a white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink-sugar blond he calls Snowdrop, come into this mostly Hispanic neighborhood every Sunday to buy cocaine...
...high on cocaine, pills and a dash of angel dust, but knows his business. "Seven-Up best today, man. They starting to pass it out on Fourth and D." They walk over and join the waiting crowd as pistol-packing guards begin to herd groups often into an abandoned building. For two hours, the line moves slowly up three flights of broken stairs. There is the stench of urine. Flickering candles light the way. The guards order the buyers to face the wall so that they cannot see the delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives...
...University of the South, better known as Sewanee, sits high atop a Tennessee mountain, so close to heaven that undergraduates believe the institution has its own guardian angel. Hence the school ritual: when a student drives out through the sandstone gates, he taps the roof of his car to summon the angel. When he returns safely to campus, he taps the car roof again to release his protector. Lately that celestial patron has been off campus on a new mission, fund raising. When Tennessee Williams died last month, the University of the South found itself the principal beneficiary...
Each time he was almost out of business, an angel appeared. In 1980 a local gynecologist persuaded several fellow doctors to pitch in $500,000. Since then, a $5 million infusion by a group of investors, including Golder Thoma & Co., a Chicago venture-capital firm, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette's aptly named Sprout Investment Group, has enabled Vorhauer to hire 40 employees. V.L.I. will soon move into a 50,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in nearby Irvine. Vorhauer expects to hire 80 more workers by year's end as production gears up. The United Kingdom and four other...
...results in punk nightclubs. Vortex, made in 16 mm on an $80,000 budget, is their first shot at the relatively big time. Its plot is standard sleuthing in the corridors of power. A Congressman has been killed on orders from a reclusive plutocrat (Bill Rice). Private Eye Angel Powers (Lydia Lunch) finds the source of the trouble in Anthony Demmer (James Russo), a tirading troglodyte in a three-piece suit who has made a pathetic slave of the billionaire. While muttering such maxims as "Truth is a dead man's secret," Angel zigzags through encounters with craven executives...