Word: doping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amidst this maelstrom in New York arrives "L.A. Confidential," a sumptuous bit of film noir set in 1950's Los Angeles. The movie features a cast of crime lords, dope dealers, tabloid photographers, wife-beaters, crooked cops, movie stars, and prostitutes. Navigating this menagerie of colorful filth are three police detectives, Bud White, Jack Vincennes, and Ed Exley. As we watch them attempt to solve a mysterious mass murder, we unexpectedly gain insight into the recent tragedy in Brooklyn...
...first impression is of a typical New York City cabbie of the old, or native-born, variety, full of mis- and disinformation delivered in a rush that permits no quibbling interruption. Assassination plots both current and historical, a unique slant on the militia movement, even (heaven help us!) inside dope on the Vatican's plans for world domination--the man's a full-service paranoid...
Narcotics. The word conjures up images of dope peddlers, undercover cops and mandatory prison terms. No matter that morphine is more effective than most prescription-strength painkillers. No matter that the vast majority of patients today can take the drug without becoming addicted. Quite a few doctors, a large number of their patients and much of the health-care establishment want no part of it. Even specialists in the treatment of pain who prescribe narcotics on a regular basis refer to the drugs as "opiate medications," as if calling them by a different name would counter their shady reputation...
...Under the Pitons, for example, an Irishman named Blessington embarks on a Caribbean drug run that proves more terrifying than he could have imagined. His French partner seems headed toward paranoid violence. Worse still is Blessington's memory of the men who sold them the dope. They had asked for "Frenchy," and Blessington, trying to appear in control, said they would have to wait until his partner arrived. "They drew themselves up around their hidden weaponry behind a silent, drug-glazed wall of suspicion that looked impermeable to reason. They were zombies, without mercy, and he, Blessington, was wasting their...
Mindful of our public image, most of our elders in the black community would rather see us repudiate rap than redefine it. But groups from the Fugees to the Roots to A Tribe Called Quest continue to blend phat beats, dope rhymes and intelligent ideas into high-powered rap, regardless of marketing data that say gangsta rap sells best. Who's pushing the rawest rhymes to No. 1 on the charts? For years now, the largest volume of hip-hop albums has been sold to white suburban kids who've deposed heavy metal and elevated hip-hop to the crown...