Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cirque Invisible has the wit and wonder of some half-remembered childhood reverie, as well as some of the contemporary sass of Penn and Teller. But Le Cirque is not quite invisible. To make it appear full-blown, in all its winsome glory, the audience must supplement the inventions of its two creator- performers, Victoria Chaplin and Jean Baptiste Thierree, with creativity of their own. It is an aerobic workout for the imagination...
Vincent Arthur Hall was a polite, mild-mannered disability analyst at the New York State social-services department. Away from the office he was a wild and crazy guy. In June, police say, Hall took a day off, went to a bank in Queens and threatened to blow a teller's head off unless he handed over some cash. But as he fled the scene with $725, Hall dropped the Manila envelope he used to conceal a gun and a holdup note. The envelope was stamped with his employer's address, and although the address had been inked...
Banks still offer a few things almost exclusively, like automatic teller machines. But even there, American Express offers a network of ATMs, as do several other companies...
Padrica Caine Hill, former bank teller, Washington mother and wife, dresses her three children one morning, makes breakfast for them, smokes some crack cocaine and lets the kids watch cartoons. Then with a clothesline she strangles eight-year-old Kristine and four-year-old Eric Jr. She tries to strangle two-year-old Jennifer, but leaves the girl still breathing softly on the floor. When the police come, Padrica Hill says she loves her children. Why did she kill them? "I don't know," she answers in apparently genuine bewilderment. "I hadn't planned...
...doesn't take a fortune teller to see that Minter's future lies along the road of social and political activism. But after her experience in Washington last summer, Minter bristles at the thought of pursuing a career in electoral politics...