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...remember hearing stories told by fellow geeks about wonderful aphrodisiacs that you could give to women to put them into that perfect state of limp compliance that made geek love possible. A Coke with an aspirin slipped into it, or there was a tasteless, odorless, 180-proof liquor called Everclear that you could buy in North Dakota -- you slipped that into a girl's glass of punch, they said, and 10 minutes later her defenses were down. She stood there in her white taffeta prom gown and white corsage and said, "Why, thank you so much for the wonderful Pepsi...
...staff of the Independent had a little more variety in its open house fare--two bottles of Coke, one of Diet Coke, a Diet Sprite, one bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, one bag of Oreos and six pizzas donated by the paper's advertiser, Dial-A-Pizza...
...Stays in the Picture (Hyperion; 412 pages; $24.95) is an NC-17 tale of mob lawyers, studio reptiles, coke dealers, starlets, domineering directors and the fast-talking operator at the center of it all. Aside from taking a few swipes at Ryan O'Neal, Francis Ford Coppola and Sharon Stone, Evans mostly tells stories on himself, charting his rise, fall and struggle to rebound with a keen staccato style usually found in hard-boiled mysteries...
France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing gripes about windowless meeting room (later changed). All delegates are supplied with mineral water except the Americans, who get Coke. "They pay attention to where you come from," enthuses Powell...
Hearsay was not just admissible; it was broadcast live. Of course he did it -- he had beaten her before, he was high on coke, he had gone into a jealous rage; of course he didn't do it -- he loved her too much, he was incapable of such savagery, he had an airtight alibi. Maybe he could have done it, but surely he would have been smarter, hired someone else and not left a trail behind...