Word: alphabetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do they look for? First, for the flow of the handwriting. Writing in which each letter of the alphabet is too carefully consistent over too many lines or over different periods of time is a telltale sign of forgery. In writing naturally and quickly, people tend to vary the formation of most characters ever so slightly, often subconsciously. Even their writing posture or how they feel about what they are writing can create minute variations. "Your signature on a $50,000 mortgage, is a little more careful than on a $10 check," notes FBI Special Agent James Lile...
Lile says revealing information can be found even in the letter of the alphabet that is simplest to reproduce: e. "You look at the size of the loop, the length of the elongation. Is it broad or narrow? Is the pressure greatest going up or down?" New York Autograph Dealer Mary Benjamin watches for ampersands, which, she says, she has never seen vary when made by the same hand...
...musical adaptation of the work of children's author illustrator Maurice Sendak. Really Rosie inflates and links the sparse content of three or four Sendak sketches in an insultingly arbitrary attempt at narrative. How, after all, could one write a script realistically incorporating. "Chicken Soup with Rice," an alphabet song, a Dracula sequence, and the saga of I Don't-Care Pierre? And why would anyone really want...
...Rosie (Dede Schmeiser), who spends most of her time fantasizing about the terrible things that may have happened to her little brother, Chicken Soup (Steve Gutwillig), who tags along after her by parental edict. One hanger-on is named Alligator (Valerie Gilbert)--she's the one who sings the alphabet solo, which starts. "Alligators All Around." Another is Pierre--the Pierre who gets eaten by a lion in another Sendak book. Rosie's brother is named Chicken Soup merely so that--in the evening's most outrageous nonsequitor--the final, curtain-dropping dance number can be set to the lyrics...
...landings have been removed. The big-time dealers organize "clubs" that change locations every few hours and employ as many as 40 people as lookouts, runners and baggers. There are even bouncers who check the needle marks on customers' arms as though they were membership cards. Some of Alphabet Town's 15 or so clubs have their own house brands of drugs, like "Lucky Seven" cocaine or such standard heroin varieties as "Poison" and "Colt .45." Employees work strict business hours: there are three eight-hour shifts a day. Each club can gross upwards of $100,000 daily...