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Carrie Snodgrass and Richard Benjamin star as a married couple living an unsatisfied life in the ranks of the upper middle class on the upper West Side of Manhattan's West Side. He is a lawyer with a seemingly bottomless ability to dish out verbal abuse to his wife, and is a thoroughly repellant figure. She, on the other hand, is a static person, spending her days wandering through museums and selecting the correct pattern for that year's Christmas cards...
Worlds such as East New York, where the shooting took place are just that--isolated, enclosed prisons. As a social worker last summer for a group in Manhattan which advocates in family court for poor kids from broken families, I went to East New York several times. From Canal Street in lower Manhattan, it's good half-hour subway ride to the eastern heart of Brooklyn, and the land of East New York...
...still has to worry about hundreds of lawsuits filed by investors claiming they were bilked by his schemes. To settle those charges, the fallen junk-bond king has now agreed to pay $500 million more in a deal that requires the approval of U.S. Judge Milton Pollack in Manhattan. Plaintiffs include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which alleges Milken helped undermine the savings and loan industry by persuading S&L chairmen to load up on junk bonds that collapsed when the market for the risky IOUs turned sour...
...Ross, says a company adviser, was so angry that for months he and Nicholas have not even been speaking to each other; Levin, arriving at work before the other two and leaving after them, carried messages between their offices on the 29th floor of the Warner building in midtown Manhattan...
...killed in a shoot-out in Belfast with Doherty and three other I.R.A. members preparing an ambush. Charged with murder, Doherty escaped just as his trial was concluding. After his arrest in 1983 for entering the U.S. illegally, the British government sought his extradition. But a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that the murder had been a political act and denied the application. Doherty remained in jail, and his cause was taken up by members of the Irish-American community, including prominent politicians...