Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government's contention that the union really is being cleansed got a boost Friday when Luskin and Gow moved to expel 28 suspected mobsters and associates from Local 210 in Buffalo, New York, and bar them from ever resuming membership. Under the Justice-Laborers deal, the expulsions can be contested before a union legal officer, and then another official can be designated to hear appeals. If the expulsions hold up, however, they will accomplish something that has eluded the government for three decades: breaking Mob control of Local...
...audiences are always talking about not selling out, about not buying in, about the eternal struggle to prevent very personal art from becoming just another upc-bearing product put out by yet another megaconglomerate. Everyone talks about it, but folk singer Ani DiFranco walks it. A native of Buffalo, New York, who now lives in New York City's East Village, she is only 25 years old but has already managed to found her own record company (the not altogether ironically titled Righteous Babe Records), to release eight solo records (with total sales of more than 300,000) and, over...
BORN. To SUSAN MOLINARI, 38, U.S. Representative from Staten Island, New York, and BILL PAXON, 42, U.S. Representative from Buffalo, New York: a girl, Susan Ruby; in Staten Island. Both parents are Republicans...
...drawing to a close was hardly encouraging. Musicals like Rent and Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk generated most of the excitement. The few straight plays that succeeded at the box office typically boasted either a big star name--Carol Burnett in the lame farce Moon over Buffalo--or a flamboyant star turn--Zoe Caldwell as rampaging diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Master Class...
...With these ingenious pieces of trickery you may not be able to get buffalo wings delivered to the library door, but nourishment can be yours: Slip a pizza into one of those artist type portfolios. Lennon specs + black wig + tie-dyed undershirt = no worries." Or "propose a toast with your coffee as you sashay in. Psyched, the checker will reach for his brewskie, but before he can say 'Bottoms up' you've disappeared into the stacks with your java...