Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next is to find a girl willing to pose as his fiance and help him convince his sublimely indifferent parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara) that he's been doing top-secret CIA work all the years he was in jail. The last is to assassinate the Buffalo Bills placekicker whose missed field goal caused him to lose the bet that led him into a life of crime...
...Crimson players skated into the National Hockey League (NHL) during last Saturday draft in Buffalo...
Sources: USA Today, PRIDE, National Institutes of Health, Restaurants USA, Chicago Tribune, AP, Buffalo News, USA Today...
...There is the mother who is too phobic to sit at the table with her children to eat a meal because this was always where domestic violence began with her ex-husband. And woman after woman chronicles the hallmark of a good relationship in a similar manner to one Buffalo woman who muses, "I guess I got all the conveniences of a nice relationship...I don't get beat...
...easy to read. There is a flavor of dejection and hopelessness that leaves a bitter aftertaste, rendering some of the stories painful to get through. While the heavy reliance on interviews give The Unknown City a realistic outlook, it presents astonishing racial and sexist stereotypes in the process. As Buffalo experienced a 21 percent jump in blue collar unemployment from 1960 to 1990, interviewees search for someone to blame and inevitably point their fingers at the wrong sources. We hear people attribute their own unemployment to minorities, welfare recipients, women entering the workforce--almost anything but de-industrialization...