Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in the neighborhood, in the little concrete triangle parks where locals gather to rest swollen feet and tell lies, and talk about the days before pink hair and nose rings, residents were split as to whether the Chin is faking his near coma. But they agreed that wearing a bathrobe on the street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian...
...Bryants have a billboard-size NO TUNNEL sign in front of their split-level, four-bedroom house. But they can almost hear the bulldozer creeping closer, with bids on the roadway project due this week, and it isn't just Steve Wynn who's behind the wheel. If the bids are within projections, he will have New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman and Atlantic City Mayor James Whelan with him, all of them preaching the gospel of small personal sacrifices for the greater public good. If you build it, suckers will come. As will thousands of jobs, millions of dollars...
...real stars, of course, are Jones and Smith, who split the one-liners pretty evenly between them. Jones's deadpan is nicely offset by Smith's comical reaction to (and commentary on) every new experience. But this, too, gets old: their immunity to surprise gets to us. There's absolutely zero tenstion at any point, and the movie's non-stop flippancy brings it perilously clsoe to triviality...
...happened in medicine is the HMO," says Dr. Lawrence Benham, a grandfatherly 84-year-old in his 47th year of practice at Dunn. "There are 30 people standing around a pile of money, and what they don't spend at the end of the year they get to split with the CEO." Dunn makes a point of not rushing patients out the door. The average length of stay for a normal birth is two days, compared with 1.3 at Bedford Regional. And the stay is also longer at Dunn for conditions like heart failure and shock, atherosclerosis and diabetes...
...post and, with the help of the FBI and the IRS, eventually uncovered a gambling empire that over six years produced $48 million for Belleville wheeler-dealer Thomas Venezia. It worked like this: tavern owners paid out real winnings to the video-poker players. The profits were split 50-50 between Venezia and his tavern-owning partners. In the course of the investigation, 27 taverns were raided. Venezia was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 15 years in prison; as he went down, he took with him the mayor of nearby Washington Park, who pleaded guilty to taking bribes...