Word: diner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weinstein's ordeal began Aug. 4, just seconds after he left the Queens diner where he has breakfast every morning at 7. As Weinstein was getting into his 1988 Saab to drive to his nearby office, a man wielding a knife -- a man he had no opportunity to identify -- forced the door open and pushed him into the passenger's seat. A second man jumped into the back and put a noose around his throat. Blindfolded, Weinstein was driven to a secluded slope underneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, one of the city's main thoroughfares, and forced into the muddy...
...offered his services to people who fell behind on their car payments -- not an unusual situation in the economically depressed steel towns of Bucks County. His customers included a computer-software manufacturer, hairdressers, truck drivers, restaurant workers, anybody. One Wills crony, Albert Falls, would hang out at a local diner, the Golden Dawn, spreading the word that customers could ditch their cars in the parking lots of shopping malls -- after first placing $200 under the floor mat. The car owners were asked to wait two weeks before reporting the car stolen and collecting the insurance. By then, all that...
...added that she wanted the conference to produce many innovative and impromptu ideas--those which she described as worthy of jotting down on a napkin in a college diner. "I hope this will be a meeting that would produce a lot of napkins," she said...
Though the audience never leaves the shop, the characters construct an external reality with sightings of police cars, references to poker partners and Bobby's frequent trips to the diner--frequent because he can't ever seem to get Donny's order straight...
...Henley (Crimes of the Heart). But she has learned little from any of them about building comedy or character. Though this off-Broadway production, handsomely designed by Loren Sherman, boasts two movie-marquee names -- bossy Marcia Gay Harden, frazzled Julie Hagerty -- it is Frank Whaley (the kid at the diner in Hoffa) who carries the burden of the play and almost makes it soar. He masks an artist's passion in beguiling nonchalance...