Word: brooklyn
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...destructive attitude toward Cambridge's vegetation. People here would rather brag about the number of dead trees on library shelves than laud the live ones that turn color outside. The trees that do eke out an existence here have a gritty urban sensibility. They're A Tree Grows in Brooklyn trees, struggling against pollution and graffiti; noble California redwoods or wild New Hampshire oaks they...
...above the Royal Shakespeare Company, Americans know the R.S.C. better ) because of the likes of Nicholas Nickleby. As a result, U.S. tourists account for only 6% of the Royal National's box office even at the height of summer. Madness opens Sept. 11 in Stamford, Connecticut, then moves to Brooklyn, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; and Boston...
...worshipper at Abu-Bakr Mosque in Brooklyn, New York, where Salem showed up a few years ago, says most of the members did not trust him. Though he tried to seem devout, the source claimed that Salem could not pray or recite the Koran properly. But members of Sheik Abdel Rahman's alleged terrorist conspiracy seem to have had no doubts. A grand jury indictment last week tells of a number of meetings at which alleged conspirators voiced fear that there might be an informer among them, then pointed a finger at one of their ringleaders. Salem was present...
Joel aims for the universal but smartly stays close to home. If Bruce Springsteen is the Jersey shore, Billy is Long Island, where the working class that fled Brooklyn stares stilettos at the moneyed folk who summer in the Hamptons. The album opens with the stinging No Man's Land, a rant anthem to the area's cultural deforestation ("Give us this day our daily discount- outlet merchandise,/ Raise up a multiplex and we will pay the sacrifice"), and closes with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only...
Bennett, the elder brother of former drug czar (and Republican presidential hopeful) Bill, has spent 35 of his 54 years in Washington. But he was shaped by blue-collar Brooklyn and nuns that made him toe the line ("If you did something wrong, they hit you"). He was a Flatbush Boys Club boxing champ, such a scrapper that his mother paid him a nickel for each day he didn't get into a fight...