Word: weehawken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mosiello is serving a mandatory life sentence for the felony murder of a Weehawken waterfront tavern owner whom police found gagged, trussed and stuffed in the trunk of a '69 Cadillac. "It was obviously a professional job, a contract hit," claims the soft-spoken Mosiello, who had no previous arrests. "I did not do it." But the state said he did, a jury agreed, and Mosiello, the owner of a successful racing-engine design shop, had to begin a new career behind a 20-ft. wall in Trenton...
Aaron Burr seems particularly pertinent. The Burr-Jefferson Electoral College tie in 1800 led to the Twelfth Amendment, which revised the process of electing the President and Vice President.* After killing Alexander Hamilton in the Weehawken duel in 1804, Burr became the first Vice President to be indicted-a precedent that has lately been dusted off by constitutional experts...
...Purpose of the Universe" for its premiere. Durang graduated last June, having gained notoriety, admittance to Yale Drama School and near-excommunication for his "The Greatest Musical Ever Sung" produced in Dunster House a year ago. In his latest work, he shifts his focus from the Bible to a Weehawken, New Jersey housewife but continues to court Papal revenge with large doses of Durang's 50-minute play this weekend--at 10 and 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights...