Word: priscilla
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...rival gang members with a sawed-off shotgun. Since "retiring," she is frequently asked by frightened female gang members trying to get out of gangs to monitor their beatings. "They know I've got juice with the gangs," she says with considerable pride. She recalls the case of Priscilla, a 15-year-old who wanted out. Three other girls, all gang bangers, took Priscilla into a public rest room while Diaz-Parton waited outside to make sure things didn't get too out of hand. "They went at her for three minutes. You could hear it, all right," she says...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
...Priscilla Fairburn is an emotionally needy Radcliffe alumna, a self-described writer whose role seems limited to one line about needing psychiatric assistance. She lives with fellow Radcliffe alum Margaret Gaminsky, a psychology researcher who work with chimpanzees. When they decide to renovate their apartment, the two women hire Mutt Vespucci (Chris Wilder), a crude, unpretentious handy-person, bike messenger and bouncer who delves into a tortuous love-hate relationship with Margaret...
...born to strict Mormons. He writes original songs, all of them about Jesus, and comes to New York after singing an amusingly disastrous proselytizing song in an elementary school. The final character, Hank Knox (Francis Henry), is the son of wealthy, influential parents. Hank is as emotionally secure as Priscilla is not. He is kind-hearted but confident to the point of overbearing arrogance...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...