Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once in a while the urge to escape is tempting. "How I would like to disengage, if only for a while," he wrote one day last year, "away from decisions, scrutiny, interaction. To be alone." Once a friend teased Cuomo that the perfect job for him was Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. There, in splendid remoteness, he could contemplate and decide. Cuomo had already thought...
After two years, Cuomo sent out dozens of letters to top-drawer Manhattan law firms. A friend urged him in applying to use his more Anglicized middle name, Matthew, rather than Mario, advice he did not take. Cuomo was rejected by every firm. He was stung. He saw their response as a clear example of prejudice against Italian Americans, and it confirmed his sense of himself as an outsider. He took a job instead with a firm in Brooklyn and gravitated toward trial work. He loved the verbal jousting, the sweet certainty that preparation paid...
...affection and blind rage. Small wonder that as the son, Macchio looks so skittish that his feet are almost never flat on the floor: he is forever on his toes, primed for flight. Early in the play De Niro makes the boy squirm by pledging to be his best friend, a pal so close he would pick his son's nose for him. Later, when he learns the boy has sampled heroin, he aims a loaded gun at his offspring, then at himself. Cuba is less angry about drug use--he snorts cocaine all the time--than...
...response the council is starting a $500,000 education campaign to discourage young people from drinking. Even third-graders are getting the message. Weekly Reader, the nation's leading school newspaper, tells the story this month of Robbie the Racoon, who disdainfully pours out a beer offered by his friend's big brother...
...these are the things you think of and write when Love has been beamed via-satellite to your friend's living room and the best you can do is consider graduate school in Texas or maybe lean over to, like, lick the TV screen...