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...book of the same name) has enough merit to avoid easy aphorisms. The title refers to cocaine, but Blow isn’t intended to be a drug movie in the sense that Traffic or Trainspotting are drug movies. It assumes its viewers already know the history of coke and how the drug took Studio 54 and Wall Street by storm, and thus steers away from dealing with the well-documented social effects of cocaine. Instead, the film is a biography of an extraordinary life, that of George Jung, the baby-faced Massachusetts native who went on to become...
...though paralleling the shift in drug trends from mellow pot to frenetic coke, the movie pulls into high gear once Jung and Diego go into the cocaine-import business. (A second aside: Does the schizophrenic nature of the movie mean to imply “pot good, cocaine bad”?) Jung meets Mirtha, played by Cruz in thoroughly unsympathetic fashion, and the two begin a torrid relationship, all wild sex and drug binges. The money that accompanies the cocaine business causes a string of problems: betrayals occur left and right, friendships are broken and the now-married Jung...
Eyestrain's friend Hiiro, a more stereotypical geek with Coke-bottle spectacles and a microchip key-chain dangling from his belt, doesn't dabble in credit cards and says he has "knocked some sense" into his pal. (Tapping into other people's Internet accounts, however, is still considered fair game.) Both men would prefer to go legit and offer their services as security advisers to local ISPs. They're not getting far. "They just ignore us," says Hiiro. When their user databases get hacked and they find a few thousand missing credit card numbers, these websites and isps may regret...
...find hydrocarbons indicative of petroleum distillates in the Coke," said Erica Berl, the coordinator of the Food-Born Illness division of the Mass. Department of Health...
...similar case of this in the past and it was [machine] lubricants," Berl said. "So one of our inspectors went out to the plant and he brought back a couple of grease samples which didn't match [those found in the contaminated Coke]. He couldn't find anything else wrong at the plant...