Word: cokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whose life is this, anyway? Alison Poole, not yet 21, is studying acting at the Strasberg Institute and excess at the end of a coke spoon. She is the protagonist of this fleet, frequently nasty and fitfully funny chronicle of drug delirium, sexual excess and committed shallowness during the dimming of the 1980s. She devotes so much time to getting off, in so many ways, that it is a wonder she found time to lend her voice to the narration. As he demonstrated in his 1984 Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney knows this turf and its voices...
After more than five years of plummeting prices, inflation has hit the cocaine trade: the Drug Enforcement Administration reports that coke prices in South Florida are on the rise. Three months ago, undercover DEA agents could buy coke wholesale for as little as $13,000 a kilogram. Today they can rarely bargain dealers to lower than $16,000. Some DEA agents believe dealers are trying to recoup losses. Cocaine seizures in Florida and the Caribbean have more than doubled in the past year...
...single-engine Mooney-252 touched down smoothly at Le Bourget airport, and the smiling pilot hopped off the two pillows that had elevated him high enough to peer out the plane's window. He turned down a glass of champagne and took a Coke instead. Landing at the same field where Charles Lindbergh ended his solo flight in 1927, U.S. Aviator Christopher Lee Marshall, all of eleven years old, had just become the youngest pilot to fly across the Atlantic...
...Argetinian goal post is covered with Coke stickers. The Brazilians have Budweiser stickers all over their goal. A giant Ford logo is imbedded in the center of the field. Billboards selling everything from stereos to sandwiches run around the stadium's edges...
Neat little packets of marijuana, coke and even heroin nestling against the vitamins at the neighborhood drugstore? And selling at a low Government-set price with a guarantee of purity? It sounds like a black comedy or perhaps a gaudy hallucination. In fact, it is the extreme version of a new policy course being advocated in dead seriousness by a growing number of those frustrated by the futility of the drug war. The 74 years of federal prohibition that have passed since the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 have been a costly and abject failure, they say, and the effort...