Word: detroit
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...multiplexes across America is both unusual and heartening. Onstage, he has won plaudits for playing a series of extravagant gay characters in such plays as Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata and Love! Valour! Compassion! Yet Lane has also been hailed for such all-American straight roles as Nathan Detroit in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, and his movie parts have ranged from Michael J. Fox's brother in Life with Mikey to the voice of the Hakuna Matata-singing meerkat in The Lion King. Lane has little interest in being treated as a standard bearer...
...DETROIT STRIKES BACK Chrysler has become the most aggressive U.S. automaker in putting these retailing ideas to work. The company angered many of its dealers by giving CarMax a franchise to sell new Chryslers, Plymouths and Jeep Eagles in Norcross, Georgia, beginning next month. Chrysler is also testing a new-car dealership called MidPark Jeep-Eagle in Dallas, where the fixed-price vehicles carry discounts of $1,800 to $2,000 below the manufacturer's suggested retail price. "People appreciate a low-pressure place that offers a fair price," says MidPark co-owner Jim DeWolfe. That spreading realization could soon...
PERHAPS NO ONE FITS THE DESCRIPtion "innocent bystander" as well as Tina Bennis. Certainly when she let her husband John take their rundown 1977 Pontiac sedan to work one day in 1988, she did not count on him driving it into Detroit, picking up a prostitute, engaging in a sexual act in the car's front seat--and getting caught. Nor did she know that the state of Michigan would be legally permitted to seize the car involved in a prostitution arrest, even though, in this case, it was co-owned by Tina. With the support of an odd coalition...
...Michigan law is being used to deter "Johns" from coming into Detroit from the suburbs to solicit prostitutes. According to George Ward, chief assistant prosecutor in Wayne County, the law resulted in the seizure of 2,927 vehicles last year. As for any unwitting wives, Ward asks, "What about the idea that the residents of Sheffield Street are even more innocent, and shouldn't have to put up with the vice market of prostitution?" The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and joined by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Ginsburg...
...DETROIT: In a blow to organized crime today, Federal agents arrested the boss and leaders of the Detroit Mafia. Seventeen people were indicted on 25 different charges alleging 30 years of murder plots, extortion and racketeering. The indictments came after a long government effort to "drive a stake through the heart" of the mob, following similar arrests in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and New York City. The alleged Mafia boss, Jack Tocco, was arrested this morning in Boca Raton, Fla. along with his brother Anthony and reputed second in command, Anthony Zerilli. "Here in Detroit...