Word: sicklied
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...conduct their craft and Hill the lifelong criminal attempting to straighten up and fly right. By virtue of its frank, confessional nature, Hill's story is more intimate and his prose more chewy; Brasco's is a thoughtful dissertation on wiseguyness. Both, however, are so crammed with revealing anecdotes, sick behavior and dark humor that you won't soon fuhgeddaboutem. --By Jeffrey Ressner
...book's chapter titles: "Work," "Faith" and "Discipline." Big Russ worked for the sanitation department in the morning, crashed diagonally on his bed for a spell and then drove a newspaper truck at night. When he was eligible to retire at age 55, he had accumulated 200 unused sick days...
PEOPLE: Chan braves bombs; singers phone in sick; Powell in a skirt...
...others were involved: the taxi driver that took them on their monthly shopping trips; the woman that sold them bread from a grocery truck; the well-liked local priest. On Tuesday Myriam proclaimed in court that none of the other 13 had done anything wrong, crying, "I'm a sick person and a liar!" Shock turned to anger, however, when the presiding judge - acting against even the prosecutor's recommendation - released only one of the seven of those 13 defendants still in prison. Since Grenon, one of the four admitted...
...Although Fox did not announce it, we must also imagine that sometime in winter it will order as a replacement some reality show that, if someone told you today that it were airing, you would think was too sick to be imaginable, but which will by then seem just slightly "edgy." (Did I mention "The Swan" is back next fall...