Word: visited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just don't see why it is such a big flippin' deal that the Pope is coming here," said Suzie Rataj, with her parents and younger brothers weeks before the Pope's visit. Edward Jr., the eldest of Ed and Betty's children, is no longer Catholic; Anne, 20, remains with the church; 17-year-old twins Charlie and Tom attend Mass. ("It's a rule here, like keeping gas in the car," says Betty.) Suzie, 23, calls herself "nonpracticing...
...custom," Betty finishes for her. Her thoughts drift to the upcoming visit. "It's not anything he says as a man. This is a person who, if he had been around at the time, Jesus would have said, 'You're Peter, and upon this rock I build this church...
Argentina may want to consider getting itself some new neighbors. First Brazil's crippled economy brings doom to its border; then Uruguay's hormonal teenagers keep PAMELA ANDERSON from crossing it. The remarkably cantilevered V.I.P. star was set to visit Argentina after filming a commercial in Uruguay but cut her tour short after being swarmed by hundreds of randy Uruguayan boys eager to cop a feel. Following a press conference, the teens shouted vulgarities at poor Pam, then attempted to grope her. Unnerved, Anderson fled back to the relative safety of the States, where teenage boys are happy just...
...Manhattan are falling past her as Mrs. Rosado's cab speeds from the northern tip of the slab all the way down to Columbus Circle. At 2 o'clock, bundled against winter, complete to her L.A. Gear sneakers, she will board a van for a five-hour ride to visit John in the Elmira Correctional Facility. Door to door, counting the visiting period and pit stops, the round-trip ordeal will take between 18 and 20 hours. Along the way, Mrs. Rosado, a diabetic, will inject herself with insulin, and she will try to steal some sleep...
...know of anyone who's been doing it as long as she has," says Tyrone Simmons, who runs a shuttle service called Operation Prison Gap and rewards Mrs. Rosado's loyalty by charging her only half the $40 fee. During the course of a week, thousands of New Yorkers visit relatives in upstate and western New York prisons. On Friday and Saturday nights, dozens of buses and vans stack up at Columbus Circle. Mrs. Rosado, who retired as a seamstress four years ago, prefers to go on a weekday and avoid the crowds...