Word: chins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often shuffles along the sidewalks of his Greenwich Village neighborhood dressed in a bathrobe and slippers and babbling to himself. Vincent (Chin) Gigante, 62, looks as if he can barely attend to his own affairs, much less oversee the country's most powerful Mob family. His lawyers contend that Chin, a former glass-jawed prizefighter (hence the nickname), is mentally ill. But federal agents believe his behavior is an act designed to avoid prosecution. Recalls John Pritchard, a former FBI supervisor: "Once in 1985 I saw Gigante walk outdoors in a bathrobe. He climbed into a car, and several blocks...
Investigative journalist William Bastone, who is writing a book about Gigante and his younger brother Louis, a controversial Roman Catholic priest, says he believes Chin really has gone mad in recent years. Gigante is now undergoing a couchful of psychiatric tests, and a federal judge may rule next month on whether he is competent to stand trial. Until then, he rests in a locked unit at a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. His brother is outraged at the federal prosecutors. "If I had an American flag in front of me, I would spit on it and burn it," shouted...
...exposed himself to women; both talked of leaving their hometown of Sparks, Nev. (pop. 41,000), to become mercenaries. This time, however, the youths hit a new low. They grabbed a shotgun and hurried to a nearby church playground, where Belknap tucked the barrels under his chin and blew his head away. Vance imitated his friend but survived, literally defaced. Three years later, he apparently overdosed on drugs prescribed because of the injury and died...
There is no real acting, either. Moore's performance consists largely of tilting her pretty chin up and looking bewildered and tilting her chin up and looking weepy. Swayze knits his brow a lot. And Goldberg, well, she's Goldberg. She makes funny faces, complains frequently, and is warm-hearted and engaging. And completely out of place in a mystery thriller...
...sealed society, ideas do seep in. Some privileged academics, artists and athletes have traveled abroad and been exposed to the freedom of the outside world. Many foreign analysts believe the pressure for change will eventually be overwhelming -- but only after Kim Il Sung is gone. Says Professor Kim Kook Chin, of Seoul's Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security: "They have to open up their system to develop their economy. But if they do open the door, it will undermine their system. The more they open up, the more vulnerable they will...