Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charlie (Mickey Rourke) risks all for his rather dim witted cousin Paulie (Eric Roberts) is more complicated than the simple "blood runs thicker than water" explanation the more mature Charlie often gives. The subtle depths to the duo's relationship is constantly revealed throughout the film, made exquisitely palpable by the two leads. Rourke puts in a superb performance as the more stable Charlie, a man in his mid-twenties with extravagant tastes, especially for natty suits and a greased hair-do. He already has a son by a previous marriage and dreams of owning his own restaurant some...
...restaurant. Though burdened by debts and the dream of one day owning a country inn, he is, or would like to think he is, upwardly mobile from the streets of Little Italy that formed him. His problem is that his best friend and cousin, Paulie (Eric Roberts), has enough downward mobility for any two inhabitants of the fringe. It's not long before the looniest of his cracked, crooked schemes has them being pursued by both police and Mafia...
...American TV. On Saturday, shortly before Reagan received an honorary doctor of laws degree at University College of the National University of Ireland, 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters attended a rival "deconferring ceremony" at which Marian Robinson, a visiting American professor who happens to be a cousin of Nancy Reagan's, read a citation denouncing the President's nuclear arms policies; three holders of honorary doctorates returned their degrees in protest. The demonstrators were peaceful, and they aimed their Irish ire at the Administration's foreign policy rather than at America. When someone set fire...
Majid Abu-Gumaa and his cousin, Subhi Abu-Gumaa, had received "severe blows to the head and body" during the assault on the bus. But the two Arabs were still alive when security men took them to an adjacent field for questioning about whether or not the bus was booby-trapped for a delayed explosion. At some point be tween the retaking of the bus and the end of the interrogation, each man suffered "a blow dealt to the back of the head by a blunt instrument," fracturing the skull and killing...
...cousin Nicholas Ferraro, then Queens district attorney, gave her a job as an assistant prosecutor. She ran the special victims bureau, handling cases of child abuse and domestic violence so brutal and disturbing that she was unable to sleep at night. While on duty, however, Ferraro was a tough and effective prosecutor. "All the cops loved her," recalls Nick Ferraro. After four years, she was emotionally drained but politically invigorated: the experience, Ferraro says, made her liberal on social issues. She quit and ran successfully for Congress under the slogan FINALLY, A TOUGH DEMOCRAT...