Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, Aug. 9, Abner Louima, 30, a Haitian immigrant, was relaxing at a Brooklyn music club when a fight broke out between two women. Next thing Louima knew, he had been taken into custody by police outside the club. Louima, a bank security guard and a married father, says he was beaten as police drove to Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house. But it was after he got there that the real nightmare began: as he tells it, he was strip-searched, then two cops took him into a bathroom and shoved a wooden pole, perhaps belonging to a toilet...
...probe what he asserts was Jones' real motive for coming forward: money. To that end, a crucial witness could be CARRIE FERRARO, who rented Paula and Steve Jones a Glendale, Calif., house in May 1993. Ferraro told TIME that almost from the start, the couple complained of being broke. They were frequently late paying the $900 monthly rent, she says, and Paula often asked to borrow money. The chatty Paula, she claims, never mentioned meeting Clinton, much less being pawed by him. After paying only part of October's rent, they skipped November entirely, then told Ferraro the Joneses were...
Nevertheless, the worm has already begun to turn again. Last winter, Whitehead expanded her essay into a book, The Divorce Culture, and all hell broke loose. A New York Times reviewer dubbed Whitehead's treatise a "self-blame book" and mocked its scholarship. Esquire magazine ran the bold-face cover line DIVORCE IS GOOD FOR YOU. In the New York Times, essayist Katha Pollitt took on the new Louisiana law that created "covenant marriage," a more binding vow that can be ended only because of extreme circumstances. "You don't have to be abused or betrayed," Pollitt declared, "to have...
...history to 1989, when The Arsenio Hall Show went on the air. It was a broadcast phenomenon, bringing new viewers--young, lots of them black--to late night for the first time. Hall respected many of the genre's conventions, but his ethnicity, effusive personality and mix of guests broke with tradition. Also, Hall didn't use a desk. Curled up in his easy chair, he was loose and open and schmoozerific. Since his show was canceled in 1994, though, no one has served his audience, and now the producers of Vibe and Keenen hope to re-create Hall...
...another without tripping over the miles of fat camera cable. Coe had to keep it all moving smoothly, cue the camera for commercials (shot live in the same studio) and, if the show ran long or short, cut or expand scenes on the spot. If a camera broke down, no problem--Coe would ad-lib a restaging of the show...