Word: newark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been summoned before. Several months earlier, while vegetating in her winter palace in north-central New Jersey, D. had been called to appear at trial in Newark, where she had been sentenced to a minimum of one week, eight hours each day, of civic responsibility. At the time, uninterested in forfeiting her life for seven days or more, D. had written to the summons office to claim her hardship: she would be taking exams at that time. Besides, having made the mistake of showing up at an IOP event her sophomore year, she had accidentally registered herself as a Massachusetts...
...NEWARK, N.J.: Puritanical, litigious America has finally lost its last vestige of humor: The words "You may have already won" have been sued out of existence. Everybody knew the envelope: Festooned with the likenesses of Dick Clark and Ed McMahon, bulging with magazine subscription stickers and cheesily promising untold riches to you, John Q. Nobody. You'd dream a little, maybe even subscribe to a few magazines. But we all got the joke. Right...
...Volleyball at Rutgers-Newark, 1 p.m. at NJIT...
...many Americans who've never before set foot in Japan, Nagano may at first look like Atlanta with jet lag--an "industrial and technology-intensive city," as its brochures boast, larger than Newark, N.J., and lined along its broad boulevards with a cacophony of gas stations (called Apple), coffee shops (called Apple Grimm) and supermarkets (called Apple Land). There are seven Kentucky Fried Chicken parlors in Nagano, its literature attests, two Mister Donuts and a Denny...
Phyllis tried to keep the matter quiet and even delayed serving Michael with the legal complaint so that it wouldn't ruin his Christmas. But the Newark Star-Ledger ran big with the anti-Oedipal tale last week. Talk-radio hosts and their audiences trashed Michael so relentlessly that a moist-eyed Phyllis called a press conference, at once begging the media to back off her boy and declaring she had no plans to back off the lawsuit. Explains her lawyer, Gary Blaustein: "Your mother loves you even if you are a murderer." Michael, who works for an electronics company...