Word: cocas
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...American tradition. "What's great about this country," Andy Warhol wrote, "is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink a Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor...
...board of directors of a bank in Colombia and president of the board of directors of a bank in Panama. I also had the concession for Chrysler Motors for Colombia. In fact, I got that concession thanks to my dealings with Mr. ((Lee)) Iacocca. ((Chuckles.)) Maybe people confused coca with my dealings with Iacocca...
...including the most powerful of human instincts, her mother love. The crack itself? The dealer who sold the crack? The others in the trade -- kingpins and mules who brought the cocaine up from South America encased in condoms that they had swallowed? The peasants in Colombia who grew the coca plants in the first place...
...stain of responsibility for evil on a constricting planet changes moral contexts. Microevil, the murder of an individual child, becomes part of the macroorganism: all the evils breathe the same air, they have the same circulatory system. They pass through the arteries of the world, from the peasant's coca plant in Colombia to the mother's brain in Washington, thence to her fingers and the clothesline that kills the children in the middle of morning cartoons...
...forthcoming MGM-Pathe buddy flick, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, starring Don Johnson and Mickey Rourke, has the folks at Harley-Davidson and Philip Morris USA fretting about a dubious portrayal of two famous brand names. MGM-Pathe demurs, citing such precedents as Cadillac Man and The Coca-Cola Kid. But in New York City the studio is taking what appears to be the opposite side of the issue. MGM- Pathe is suing a gay and lesbian organization called the Pink Panthers, which patrols the streets to protect homosexual men and women from roving gangs of gay bashers...