Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Costner's coiled heroic presence is one more source of controversy, for the liberal icon of Dances with Wolves and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is playing Jim Garrison, who as New Orleans district attorney in the late '60s prosecuted the only Kennedy assassination case that ever went to trial. And, quickly, out the window. The jury found the defendant, businessman Clay Shaw, not guilty in less time than last week's West Palm Beach jurors took to exonerate William Kennedy Smith. For the past decade, Garrison (who appears in JFK as Chief Justice Earl Warren) has been part...
...returned from World War II. Now, eight months after the first soldiers, sailors and airmen returned victorious from Operation Desert Storm, military bases from San Diego to North Carolina are bracing for their own baby boomlet. Since the troops got home, positive pregnancy tests have tripled at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The expectant mothers include Desert Storm vets -- five of the six women in one unit. In San Diego 318 Marine wives have been sent to community hospitals for prenatal care because the docs at Camp Pendleton are swamped. Doctors at Fort Stewart, Georgia, expect...
...known in the press and gossip of his glory days, the 1940s, as "Bugsy," he was perhaps the most famous mobster of his era. Not that he liked his colorful sobriquet (he tended to punch out people who used it in his presence) or his public identification as a hood (his preference was "sportsman...
...part of the stomach, can be billed a la carte as several procedures for a total of $6,900. When auto-repair shops or lawyers do that, we call it padding the bill. Doctors call it "unbundling." Some maintain that they do it in the spirit of Robin Hood, overcharging people with good insurance in order to charge less for the treatment of poorly covered patients...
...foot of Mount Hood in Oregon, where Lila Foggia, 44, a former Hollywood studio vice president, now fishes for steelhead outside her family's forest-shaded house on the bank of the Salmon River and exults, "God, I love living among normal people...