Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...larger, so too did the crowds making pilgrimages across state lines to buy a piece of the dream. Sometimes skipping work, the hopeful drove from Los Angeles to Bullhead City, Ariz., from Chicago to Kenosha County, Wis., from Brooklyn and Queens to the posh New York City suburb of Greenwich, Conn., where residents (many already in possession of millions of dollars) grew frustrated by the hordes that gathered daily in ticket lines that snaked around whole village blocks. Greenwich police ran up $50,000 in overtime costs...
...these truths haven't seemed to dissuade often desperate, or perhaps just dizzyingly optimistic, Powerball fortune seekers. On July 23, outside Stateline Stationery in Greenwich, owner Bill Summa witnessed a man of about 60, who had been waiting in line at least an hour in 95[degree] heat, keel over onto the sidewalk. An ambulance came, but the man refused to leave the line without buying $15 worth of tickets first. "I took his money, and then, and only then, did he get in the ambulance to go to the hospital," recounts Summa, who worked 17-hour days in recent...
...Psychiatric Association, for instance, for using the gender-identity-disorder diagnosis. Previously, transgenders appeared as figures in the early gay-liberation movement: it was cross-dressing men--their "hair in curls," as they chanted--who threw the first rocks in the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village. But as the gay movement went mainstream, it jettisoned transgenders as too off-putting...
...tryout for the Letterman show. My instructions from Dave's people were explicit: "You'll do seven minutes at the Gotham at 9:30 Tuesday night. We'll be watching." I was primed, since I had just done two killer half-hour shows at a Planned Parenthood benefit in Greenwich, Conn. In hindsight, perhaps I should have realized that contraceptive-loving wealthy suburbanites were not the best test market to prepare for late-night-TV comedy...
...Dylan, a rock-'n'-roll American kid who first heard Woody Guthrie while enrolled for a few months at the University of Minnesota, took up folk. Got a ride to New York. Settled in Greenwich Village. Took any gig he could get. Within two years--tops--turned folk inside...