Word: brooklyn
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Undine moves in with her parents in Brooklyn, a step that particularly stings because she had erased her past—by telling a magazine that her family died in a fire—when she first started moving up in the world. Throughout the next several months, Undine faces pregnancy, welfare, and the consequences of severing her past. She is also arrested for buying heroin for her grandmother...
What can James Murphy do? What can he do, still living in Brooklyn while the cool kids in Paris and London with names like Justice and Simian Mobile Disco flood the clubs and blogs with a new brand of dance? What can he do after even he’s admitted that he’s losing his edge? His answer is this: lead electro-posse LCD Soundsystem back into the DFA studios and make “Sound of Silver.” As good as the group’s eponymous debut was?...
...vaccine to combat illnesses like pneumonia, Austrian turned this theory on its head. Convinced that certain bacteria were resistant to antibiotics--and aware that pneumonia was still killing thousands of people annually--he led a groundbreaking 10-year study of the issue at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. By its culmination in 1962, Austrian had persuaded the medical community of the continued need for a pneumococcal vaccine; his was licensed...
Could it be curtains for Tony? It's possible. His battered insides are giving him agita, and there's still trouble with the Brooklyn Mob, whose leader can't forget the murder of his brother by Tony's cousin. Death on The Sopranos can be operatic or bathetic; in the first two episodes screened for critics, one mobster dies in a bloody shooting, another ignominiously of cancer. It's also possible, given creator David Chase's distaste for tidy endings and moral lessons, that Tony could stroll off into retirement as others pay the bill for his deeds...
There's psychology at work here too. Lawrence Solan, a professor at Brooklyn Law School and an expert in linguistics and the law, explains that we can process an abstract word like doubt only by contrasting two mental images. In a criminal case, the first image would be the prosecutor's version of events, showing the defendant as guilty. The second would portray the defendant as innocent. Only if the second were plausible, says Solan, would the jury have "doubt" about the first. Jurors might themselves be able to conjure the image of the defendant's innocence, but most need...