Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Giuliani was already three days into a meltdown in which he'd snapped at, among others, a columnist who claimed that he clocked Giuliani speeding in his GMC Suburban shortly after the mayor vowed a crackdown on scofflaw motorists as well as jaywalkers, and promised--read closely here--the creation of a more polite New York City...
...love it. The only town on the planet where a civility-campaign slogan could be, "You talkin' to me?" And the best part is that everyone in New York, with the lone exception of Giuliani, has caught the irony. "He's got a lese majeste personality," observed ex-Mayor Ed Koch. "If you say anything critical, off to the guillotine...
...there figured to be only friendly fire from the mayor's fellow Italian Americans at Our Lady of Pompeii. In an informal sampling at a table of six before his arrival, the wildly popular second-term Republican mayor was elected President of the U.S. One of the diners, Antoinette Vomero, told of the time Giuliani kissed her on the cheek...
...thing about Rudy, though: you never know when he'll blow. And sure enough, after his speech a reporter asked about his cut in hospital funding, and that was all it took to light Rudy's boilers. "You should be ashamed of yourself," snorted the mayor, whose tight-lipped administration keeps basic information about city services out of the hands of pesky reporters and government watchdogs. "I'm not ashamed," said Rafael Martinez Alequin of the monthly Free Press. "I know, that's the problem," scolded the mayor, who never really left seventh grade...
...problems that once seemed so intractable." Precisely, chimes Giuliani, who takes credit for dramatic reductions in crime and the welfare rolls and resents criticism that his second-term initiatives aren't as grand as those of his first. "The press likes to trivialize what I do," says the mayor, who invokes Plato and the concept of an ideal society. One in which strippers wear bloomers...