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...SOLEIL LEVANT American...
...Player gives credence to Oscar Levant's epigram remark about Hollywood: "Scratch off the phony tinsel at the top, and you uncover the real tinsel at the heart...
...warehouse in the San Fernando Valley's Sylmar illustrates the size of the problem. Though 21 tons of coke were confiscated, records showed that at least 55 tons, worth $1.1 billion, had passed through the warehouse in the previous three months. According to Deputy Chief of Police Glenn Levant, the raid "made little if any impact on the availability of cocaine that we have been able to measure. There was a big jump in wholesale prices after Sylmar, but in the long term the street price and purity of cocaine remained essentially constant. It didn't make a dent...
This format perhaps flowed from Glass's view that the people of the Levant, like peace in Lebanon, cannot be neatly packaged; thus the only way to convey any true sense of them is to transmit their stories at length and in profusion. The result is a huge number of trees, many lovely, that never become a forest. Interlocutors both fascinating and tedious, mundane sight- seeing jaunts and profound observations, telling vignettes and pointless collections of detail are all jumbled together in a work too long by half. Good questions are posed but not answered. Glass himself remains strangely opaque...
...prices fall; when there is scarcity, prices rise. Ominously, the huge U.S. seizures in the past few months, along with the Colombian government's crackdown on the Medellin cartel, have done almost nothing to boost the price of the drug on either the wholesale or retail levels. Contends Glen Levant, the deputy police chief in Los Angeles: "Surely this must validate our belief that there is much, much more cocaine in the pipeline than anyone thought...