Word: nose
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C17H21NO4. A derivative of Erythroxylon coca. Otherwise known as cocaine, coke, C, snow, blow, toot, leaf, flake, freeze, happy dust, nose candy, Peruvian, lady, white girl. A vegetable alkaloid derived from leaves of the coca plant. Origin: eastern slopes of the Andes mountains. Availability: Anywhere, U.S.A. Cost: $2,200 per oz., five times the price of gold...
...drugs, except that it is 70 times as costly as the finest beluga. While an eclectic consumer might feel that caviar and a bottle of Bellinger brut give a headier, cheaper and wholly licit lift to an evening, many American hedonists get more of a kick* through the nose...
From the Andes to the American nose, the trade is almost entirely controlled by Colombians, who process the drug and smuggle it into the U.S., largely by boat and plane. Enterprising individuals have hidden cocaine in everything from hollowed-out candy bars and native "carvings" to wigs, souvenirs and even plastic sacks in their stomachs, which occasionally burst, causing death...
Ignition can occur in various ways. "Snorting," or sniffing the white powder, ensures absorption of the drug into the bloodstream through the mucous membranes. But it also constricts the myriad little blood vessels in these membranes, reduces the blood supply and dries up the nose. With repeated coke use, ulcers form, cartilage is exposed and the nasal septum can be perforated, requiring repairs by plastic surgery. (Savvy users rinse their noses with water after sniffing to wash away the irritants.) To avoid the impurities of street coke and obtain a greater jolt, more users are resorting to freebasing. After dissolving...
Visually, the series was nearly always interesting, from its pictures of U.S. officeworkers wearing gas masks and rubber gloves while pecking away at typewriters during a chemical-warfare exercise to a shot of a live American MIRV (three nuclear warheads mounted on the nose cone of a Minuteman III missile). Understated ironies abounded. A fresh-faced American missileman exclaimed with Boy Scout enthusiasm that his task of getting ready to launch a Minuteman at a Soviet target gave him "more responsibility than I could obtain in a civilian world." Commenting on film showing a C-5A cargo plane losing...