`COCAINE': MIAMI'S VICE.Byline: - Bob Strauss Welcome to Miami Vice: The Real World. MTV-style cutting and camera tricks make you think directors Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman are trying to out-Michael Mann the original ``Vice'' show for a while. But soon it's clear this is an alternately jazzed-up/talking-too-much-heads documentary about the Miami drug trade of the 1970s and '80s. Things settle down once all the main players are established, and a wealth of information about an extraordinary organized-crime phenomenon is imparted. And a lot of it is done by the people who were in the thick of it. Those who are still alive to talk, anyway. And rattle on they do, like recovered addicts with more energy than outlets for it. Native Floridians Corben and Spellman, who made the controversial ``Raw Deal'' about the questions surrounding a university gang-rape case, talk to the local operators and pilots who struck the earliest import deals with Colombia's Medellin cartel Noun 1. Medellin cartel - a drug cartel in Colombia; controlled the production of cocaine from the 1970s until 1993 when the leader was killed Colombia, Republic of Colombia - a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the . They show how the burgeoning illicit Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as an illicit trade; illicit intercourse. ILLICIT. What is unlawful what is forbidden by the law. Vide Unlawful. 2. business fueled a wider economic boom for the fading tourist town (with attendant official corruption). And they go deep into the bloody violence that inevitably took over the trade. We come out of ``Cocaine Cowboys'' greatly informed about a lot of things. We learn the best ways to stash stash Drug slang noun A place where illicit drugs are hidden tons of product, how to waste vaults full of money and what it feels like to know that you can get away with doing anything to anybody. It's a remarkable immersion immersion /im·mer·sion/ (i-mer´zhun) 1. the plunging of a body into a liquid. 2. the use of the microscope with the object and object glass both covered with a liquid. in a world turned morally inside out. And it doesn't look too unlike the rest of America. COCAINE COWBOYS - Three stars (R: violence, drug use, language) Director: Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman. Running time: 1 hr. 58 min. Playing: Town Center 5, Encino; Playhouse 7, Pasadena; Sunset 5, West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. . In a nutshell nut·shell n. The shell enclosing the meat of a nut. Idiom: in a nutshell In a few words; concisely: Just give me the facts in a nutshell. Adv. 1. : Documentary about the South Florida narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. trade is stylish and informative, if perhaps not the whole story. |
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