Word: springfield
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...laid-back Cavanagh is winning as a Quixote determined to win his love by making "a complete ass" of himself. He's the male version of the beautiful blond with glasses--a handsome guy we can pretend will have to work to get the girl. Whether you hail from Springfield or Soho, you'll want to take him home...
...Euro-sounding dance tracks such as "How Far" and the samba-tinged "Taking Off For France." The album does take a recess from beat-heavy percussion and veers towards further flirtation with retro-lounge electronic tunes, with Cracknell voicing her lyrics breathily in a manner not unlike Dusty Springfield. But the closing track, "Anymore," ends the album with more bleeps and heavy backbeats. While it's the strongest track in the album, it still fails to hold one's attention as anything but a mere pop tune...
DIED. ANTHONY ("Tony Ducks") CORALLO, 87, last of the old-time Mafia dons; in prison while serving a 100-year sentence for racketeering; in Springfield, Mo. Corallo, former boss of the Lucchese family, was known as Tony Ducks for ducking subpoenas; he also ducked the limelight. Passionate about secrecy, he sat impassive in court, "like one of these big stone idols" said a prosecutor, as tapes played his rare slipup: a bugged 1982 talk with his driver on Mob control of New York City's construction industry...
...resident of Prospect Street reported to CPD that while on the corner of Cambridge and Springfield, two black males approached him and punched him in the face. They then removed $10 from his pocket and took his bike...
...that they say nabbed 1,500 new hires who will enter the police academy this September. The Seattle police have snared a high-profile ad agency to create glitzy sayings like "Bungee Jumpers at Space Needle. A job like no other. In a city like no other." Recruiters in Springfield, Mo., have assembled a network of college criminal-justice professors to help attract student candidates. They've even invited the teachers on ride-alongs. And Springfield's police have also upped their presence on the Internet, posting positions on sites like jobs4police.com...