Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depict a grungy, all-night coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, but it soon takes on the sulfurous glow of the lower depths: a rush-hour subway car, say, some time during World War III. Junkies, hookers, drag queens, derelicts, ganefs and hit men rub up against Joe (Danton Stone) and Darlene (Laurie Metcalf), a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown scene till morning. "They every one of them steal," one denizen grumbles, and steal they do: money, drugs, a cup of coffee, a shred of strutting self-respect, another minute of free...
...even way up there at the top where the air is thin, Rubén Blades would seem a rare, highflying creature. His songs have not only rhythms that insinuate but lyrics that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella...
Those hoping to rub elbows with the athletes are likely to be disappointed, as Harvard, Cambridge, and Olympic security are cooperating in a massive effort to guard the players. Harvard's athletic department will fence a path from Dillon Field House to Harvard Stadium to shield players' comings and goings...
...million a week; by its second year, the take had plummeted to $900,000. (It now averages $1.2 million a week.) "In lottery operations, you have to keep innovating to be successful," says Douglas Gordon, executive director of the Washington, B.C., lottery, which started in 1982 with an "instant" rub-off card, later added a three-digit numbers game, and last month introduced a Lotto contest...
...LaBrava, tools around South Miami Beach in a stolen Eastern Airlines wheelchair "because he didn't like to walk and because he thought it was cool." Cornell Lewis, a black ex-con houseman for a high roller in Stick, explains his boss: "What the man likes is to rub up against danger without getting any on him. Make him feel like the macho man ... See, he sits there at the club with his rich friends? Say, oh yeah, I go right in the cage with 'em. They don't hurt me none...