Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comedy that makes the rest of the audience laugh and cheer. Am I blind? Or are they seeing things? With the new hit MY COUSIN VINNY, we vote for seeing things. This fish-outta-wautta farce plops a rude Italo-American (Joe Pesci) into the cracker barrel of an Alabama town to defend his cousin (Ralph Macchio) on a murder rap. Pesci, a vacuum-packed version of all Three Stooges, struts and mugs, but gets most of his laughs with his preposterous coiffure (Mr. Pesci's hair by Anthony Sorrentino). Other good actors are strewn along the winding story line...
...illness to caring for chronic maladies like heart disease and cancer -- a shift that has sent health-care costs skyward. "There's a growing appreciation of the need to find the most economical way to treat and prevent chronic disease," notes Dr. Charles Butterworth Jr. of the University of Alabama. "Food and vitamins are not that expensive." Calculates Tufts' Blumberg: "We could save billions of dollars if we could delay the onset of - chronic diseases by as little as 10 years...
...blacks were against busing right here in Alabama. In fact, if it was a code word, every one of them that ran in 1976 was against busing. I wasn't the only one against busing...
...Blacks in other states don't know me like the blacks in Alabama...
...later on he got them passed. So I have been in the same position that he has been in. He's been rehabilitated, so I should be also. In the long run, it doesn't make all that much difference, because I know that I love every citizen of Alabama, black and white...