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...simply get around them by leading double lives: pious in public, more freewheeling at home and on overseas forays. Bootleg liquor is easily available. The euphemism for home-brew whiskey is "brown," while gin is called "white"; at parties people will say, "I'll have some brown in a + Coke," or "I'll have some white in a Sprite...
...what words! In this era of postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy. Suzanne is ever crouching, like a stubborn, frightened child, behind the wall of her ironizing humor. As a coke-carrying member of the sensation generation, for whom "instant gratification takes too long," she is impatient with her wit; too easily she can turn a kind thought against itself. Just as easily, she has turned her life into a sad joke, blowing lines on the set and nearly dying from an overdose...
...time a product has been around for a century or more, it has produced mountains of nostalgia-inducing memorabilia. At Coca-Cola (age: 104), that history had been gathering dust in the company's Atlanta archives until several years ago, when Coke realized its marketing value. Last week the company opened a $15 million corporate museum called the World of Coca-Cola (admission: $2.50). The three-story building houses more than 1,000 artifacts, memorabilia and documents, ranging from 75-year-old green-glass bottles to advertising posters with tag lines like "The Ideal Brain Tonic" and "Coke...
Escobar's demise would probably not even slow down coke production. Rodriguez Gacha's death last December created a power vacuum, which a new, even more aggressive generation of drug merchants is vying to fill...
What fuses this apparent chaos into a coherent and haunting play is the theme that runs through all of Reddin's work, notably Rum and Coke (1985), Big Time (1987) and Nebraska (1989): the tandem dangers of run-amuck individualism and nice-guy uninvolvement. The central character in Life During Wartime is, like almost all of Reddin's heroes, a genial but morally weightless young man. When he learns that other salespeople in his home-security firm are running a sideline in burglary -- for the loot and to generate additional sales -- he assumes it has nothing to do with...