Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year makes. Last May change seemed to be in the wind at the Big Three networks. Faced with steadily growing competition from cable and other video choices, the networks were groping for a way to stay relevant and healthy. Critically praised shows like I'll Fly Away and Brooklyn Bridge were renewed despite low ratings. The fall lineup included a batch of hip relationship comedies tailored to the thirtysomething audience (Love and War, Mad About You), as well as a flock of Beverly Hills, 90210, clones aimed at an even younger crowd. The network mantra was demographics; these shows might...
...with Americans in New York City and Austin, Texas, it is a three-act, multimedia, audiovisual collaboration between the pioneering minimalist composer and his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot. By turns fascinating and frustrating, The Cave, which will have other performances this year in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Brooklyn, Paris and Brussels, stands on its own as a breakthrough piece for Reich and a tantalizing glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century...
...received a mild admonition for wearing jeans instead of his full uniform, but, says Lieut. Robert Valentino of the New York City transit police, "he looked like a motorman and he acted like a motorman, so they gave him an assignment." Keno dutifully studied the route out to Brooklyn before the 3:58 p.m. departure time...
...four years for this moment," Keno would later tell authorities. "It was very exciting." He handled the train with the greatest care, making all the proper announcements and easing the train into the proper position at each station. Twenty-four miles later, he pulled into his final destination in Brooklyn. He was one minute ahead of schedule...
Early last week, detectives tracked Keno down at his parents' home in Brooklyn. Only then did they discover that the offending motorman was a 16- year-old boy. Now Keno sits at home, ashamed of what he did and worried about what will happen to him next. "He wanted to show people that he could drive a train, and someday he wanted to become a motorman," says Melissa. "He accomplished his goal and everything, but in the wrong way." At first, a Transit Authority spokesman insisted they would "throw the book at this kid," charging him with reckless endangerment, forgery...