Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual trophy wives (she can't make a silk purse out of a Coach bag); instead they are a prize greater than rubies. In the fight against women with skinny thighs and no love handles, they always win (hence the fantasy quality of Isaacs' fiction). Accents from Queens and Brooklyn may flavor their speech, but they are aristocrats to their wisecracking bones, and woe to the Richies, those slobs, who can't appreciate them. Because, in her fictional universe, Isaacs plays God, her vengeance is swift and funny, and her heroines live happily ever after...
...ever since. One reason for revoking parole is suspicion that the suspect might flee. Abdel Rahman obligingly provided grounds for such suspicion by leaving his apartment in Jersey City Wednesday night and leading federal agents who had been watching him on a car chase before holing up in the Brooklyn mosque...
...Egypt, where a judge last week issued a warrant for the sheik's arrest, Abdel Rahman's supporters vowed a global bomb campaign to avenge his U.S. detention. Which did little to reassure New Yorkers about their safety. On Thursday bomb scares closed the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and one entrance to Kennedy Airport. A ninth suspect in the case of the would-be U.N. bombers was arrested, but some other plotters may be still at large. Meanwhile, at bail hearings for some of the original eight suspects, FBI officials charged that their targets also included the George Washington Bridge...
After a 20-hour standoff, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the radical Muslim cleric who federal authorities believe is connected to terrorists, left a mosque in Brooklyn, New York, and surrendered peaceably to immigration authorities. The Justice Department decided to detain Abdel Rahman after he tried to elude surveillance by federal agents...
...Friday night, after 20 tense hours of negotiations, the sheik emerged from a Brooklyn mosque with his followers, chanting "God is great," and turned himself...