Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matchups that would have made the best stories didn't eventuate. Mets-Red Sox would have been a replay of the Buckner series of '86; and Yankees-Mets, presumably, the mythic second coming of the famed Subway Series that marked the 1950s--mythic because, these days, people who ride subways don't often get tickets to Series games in New York City. After the corporate box-seat ticket holders and other big shooters are taken care of, it would only be accurate to call a Yankees-Mets engagement a Lincoln Town Car Series...
...Perennially jealous of the college students he sees on the subway ("It must be grand to be a student with nothing to do but listen to professors, read in libraries, sit under campus trees and discuss what you're learning.") McCourt talks his way into New York University by giving an admissions officer a sampling of his reading list, heavy on Dostoyevsky and Melville, with a smattering of Tolstoy...
...movie that American filmmakers would never risk making. (Instead, we get classics like Three to Tango! My dog could have peed that script.) The plot's so pithy: drug dealer accidentally leaves the 100,000 marks that he's supposed to give to his drug lord on a subway train. He and his girlfriend, fiery, red-haired Lola, have 20 minutes to scrounge up the dough. The movie unfolds in virtually real-time. Remember the last time we tried that? Johnny Depp in Nick of Time? To give the movie the juice it needs, director Tom Twyker directs Run Lola...
Because of Kenny, the New York Mets are dusting off their fishing rods and planning winter vacations to Bermuda instead of buying their MetroCards for a subway ride to the Bronx...
Then Kenny came in, and the subway series was derailed faster than you can say Triboro Bridge...