Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zanio, who works as a carpenter, took a hatchet from her car trunk and started to smash the snowwoman, but fled when Barnett rushed out of his house. "We had her arrested to let people know they can't go hacking things down," says Barnett. Last week Zanio was charged with disorderly conduct; she could face a $200 fine...
...Angeles: Metro Rail. Planned as the area's first rapid-transit system since the "red car" rail network was scrapped in the 1960s, the 20-mile, $4.5 billion subway is nonetheless considered extravagant. Construction began last fall on the first, 4.4-mile downtown segment, which will cost $1.25 billion, with $870 million coming from Washington. Opponents favor less costly projects, like surface railroads along existing freeways. One critical slogan: "Stop the Subway and Save Mass Transit." The highway bill gives L.A. another, more widely praised plum: 27 smaller projects, valued at $74 million, to improve gridlocked roads around the Port...
...Councilman Robert Farrell, a South Central resident who believes his area is being shortchanged by the I've-got-mine attitude that prevails in safer parts of the city. "The levels of violent crime in South Central Los Angeles are just no longer acceptable," says Farrell. "My car has been broken into, my house has been burglarized, and my wife has been robbed at gunpoint. No other members of the city council would put up with this...
Bernice (Goldberg) is out on parole, managing a bookshop and trying to go straight. Blackmail propels her into a little job of larceny that turns out to be a setup for a murder rap and for yet another car chase around the hilly streets of San Francisco. The narrative is so busy, and Goldberg and Goldthwait (as her best friend) have so many boring obligations to its improbabilities, that the movie seems an unnecessary intrusion on its leading players...
Fundraising at Harvard has grown up since bake sales and car washes...