July 19, 1999
EXPANDING ECONOMY JUST A LOT OF HOT AIR?
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amYOU'VE heard of the phrase "house-poor," used when a person owns a home but doesn't have much money in his pocket. Well, Americans today seem to be retirement-poor. Thanks to...
UNZIPPING ONE'S SPANISH FLY WITH NERVE MAGAZINE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amAy caramba! Online "literate smut" mag Nerve is entering the Latin market. The New York-based publication, whose latest issue included excerpts from Alexander Pushkin's secret diary as well as an...
WARNER'S WISH LIST: STUDIO DESPERATELY SEEKING DILLER-LIKE CHIEF
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amWanted: a studio chief who understands the Internet, and how the online world will change music, movies, and TV. And it wouldn't hurt if the candidate's ego isn't out of...
TIMES 'PINCHED' BY CONTROVERSY OVER PAPER'S TOP SPOT
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amTimes staffers are fretting that if (Howell) Raines gets the job, he'll bring a purge of all but a handful of "literary stylists and stars." The New York Times is...
HOW DARE THEY! NBC STATIONS STOOP TO NEW LOW BY DISSING CHARMING 'ROSEANNE SHOW'
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amMAYBE Roseanne should have gone back to grabbing her crotch. Then she might have been better able to meet the low standards set by NBC, home of "Sally" and "Maury"...
TV TICKER
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amSplitting heirs Attorney Robert Bennett, representing the Zapruder heirs, appears for an exclusive interview on tonight's "Rivera Live" (9 p.m. on CNBC). Bennett will talk about the controversy surrounding the...
KYLIAN'S DUTCH TREAT ENDS LINCOLN CENTER FEST
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHEATRICALITY courses through Jiri Kylian's veins like blood. Yesterday at the New York State Theater, his company, Nederlands Dans Theater, ended its Lincoln Center Festival 99 engagement with its second...
'CATS' STILL HAS A FEW LIVES LEFT
July 19, 1999 | 4:00am'CATS" has been at the Winter Garden since 1981; that's 18 years in show time and 900 years in cat time. It was performed for the 7,000th time this Bastille...
DESIGNER POURS IT ON: THE STUNNING DRESSES BY NIGERIAN-BORN TUNJI DADA ARE MOLDED DIRECTLY ONTO THE NAKED BODY AND HELD TOGETHER WITH LATEX
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amFORGET the airplane crisis. What if all the world's sewing machines break down in the wake of Y2K?Fortunately, designer Tunji Dada, 39, has already taken care of the problem with...
HEALTH NET JOGGING INTO THE PICTURE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00am"You won't see any supermodels hosting our fitness shows."MARK KRIGSMAN, Health Network's program chief SAY hello to The Health Network, launching today in 4 million cable households throughout the metropolitan...
CRUISING FOR A BRUISING
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: It was No. 1 at the box office this weekend, but it doesn't look like 'Eyes' has what 'Blair Witch' has - an enthusiastic audience. Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide...
TIGERS, FLIES, RUDY AND ALFONSE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amSo suddenly Hillary Clinton's on aslippery slide to perdition? Patriots andother upstanding citizens can hope, butit's a little early to get carried away. JOAN Byron-Marasak lives in New Jersey and...
G0PERS: RUDY'S OUT IF RICK'S IN
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amTOP New York Republicans are predicting that Mayor Giuliani won't run for the U.S. Senate if he's challenged in the GOP primary by U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio. The Republicans, including...
FIRE REPORT SPURS CHANGES
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani vowed yesterday to make changes in the way inspections of city-owned housing are conducted - a move prompted by last year's tragic loss of two fire officers in...
NEW YORKERS PRAY FOR 'ONE OF US'
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amNew Yorkers offered tears and prayers yesterday for John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law. A gloom blanketed the city that John Jr. and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy...
HEAT MEANS HIGH TENSION
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amAll eyes are on Con Edison today as sweltering temperatures bake the Big Apple for a fourth consecutive day. Forecasters are predicting a high of 90 degrees today - a...
PREZ HONORS FAMILY THAT GAVE SO MUCH
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A sorrowful President Clinton paid tribute yesterday to a Kennedy dynasty that has "suffered much and given more." "The Kennedy family has inspired Americans to public service, strengthened...
THANK GOD JACKIE'S NOT HERE TO SEE THIS: HOPEFUL WORDS FROM OFFICIALS FOOL NO ONE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amGAY HEAD, Martha's Vineyard. JOHN DAVIS, Kennedy biographer and cousin of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, was talking about a chilling moment of history we will never forget. "It was after Bobby...
COPS: GANG WAR LED TO SUBWAY SHOOTINGS
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amPolice said yesterday a subway shootout that left three men injured over the weekend was prompted by a run-in between two rival Mexican street gangs who already have bad blood...
GHOSTS OF CHAPPAQUIDDICK
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe tragedy unfolding off the coast of Martha's Vineyard yesterday eclipsed the anniversary of another dark moment in the history of America's most famous family. Just a few miles across...
MOURNFUL MAG AHEAD OF ITS TIME ON COVER
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amTime magazine drew criticism yesterday for declaring JFK Jr. dead - while other newsweeklies still held out hope for his survival. Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report soft-pedaled the...
POLICE PROBE HIV CLAIM BY GRAMMERCY RAPE SUSPECT
July 19, 1999 | 4:00am"I don't know if it was some kind of a boast or a terrible statement, but we're looking into it." DEPUTY COMMISSIONER PATRICK KELLEHER Cops yesterday were trying to determine...
CITY'S FAVORITE SON HAD EYED SENATE RUN: REPORT
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - John Kennedy Jr. was considering running for Senate, but dropped the idea when Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped in, it was reported yesterday. Kennedy was "very quietly exploring" a...
COMMON PILL COATING KOS AIDS VIRUS: DOCS
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe substance is known to be safe because it's already used to coat drug capsules. New York blood researchers have made the amazing discovery that an adhesive used to coat...
FLYING ENABLED HIM TO AVOID PLANE FOLKS: JFK HISTORIAN
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr., got his pilot's license as a way of maintaining his privacy when he traveled, a top Kennedy historian writes in Newsweek. "When he flew on commercial...
DOOMED COUPLE WAS BUILDING DREAM HOME: CONN. ESTATE WOULD HAVE BEEN 'GREAT' FOR KIDS
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr. and wife Carolyn were building a Connecticut dream house with everything a Camelot couple could wish for - even llamas grazing nearby. The spread has lots...
775-POUND QUEENS MAN DIES IN HOSP
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amA 775-pound man who was forklifted out of his Queens home two weeks ago so he could be taken to a hospital has died, family members and friends said yesterday....
KENNEDY FAMILY KEEPS SILENT VIGIL : ETHEL GOES OUT SAILING AS THEY WAIT FOR WORD
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amHYANNIS PORT, Mass. - Silence, fading hope and muffled grief marked the second day of waiting for the Kennedy family. The clan made no comment during the day to the...
BUYERS UP THEIR MOR-BIDS: VALUE OF JFK JR. COLLECTIBLES JUMPS
July 19, 1999 | 4:00am"At this moment, we don't know if John Kennedy Jr. . . . is deceased . . . but . . . this is a truly rare autograph."SALE PITCH ON...
BARAK OPEN TO A FUTURE PALESTINIAN STATE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amNew Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday he's hoping for Mideast peace within 15 months - and didn't rule out the possibility of an eventual Palestinian state. "I'm not...
COP: 'SLOW DOWN,' I USED TO TELL HIM
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amWEST TISBURY, Mass. - The police chief of the Martha's Vineyard town where John Kennedy Jr. spent many summer weekends said she often told him to slow down as he...
FINALLY, THEY BOTH FOUND TRUE LOVE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amCarolyn Bessette turned the World's Sexiest Man into the World's Happiest Man. "It was beyond love at first sight," close friend Paul Wilmot told The Post. "She worshiped him. He...
DEATH WAS IN THE AIR & HE NEVER SAW IT ; EXPERTS: JFK LIKELY MISSED DANGER SIGNS
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr. probably had no idea his plane was about to crash into the ocean off Martha's Vineyard until it was too late to save himself and his...
STERN FAN FAKES OUT TV NEWS ANCHORS
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amA Howard Stern fan posed as a Coast Guard official during live coverage of the Kennedy tragedy and got past network news call-screeners at CBS, ABC and MSNBC. The crank...
SINGLE BEEP MAY LEAD TO AWFUL OCEAN FIND: SEARCHERS RACING TO SIGNAL'S SOURCE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amA brief beep from an emergency beacon in the waters off Martha's Vineyard yesterday gave searchers a grim clue that may lead them to the wreckage of the plane that...
TRAGIC TRIO CAN'T BE ALIVE, RESCUERS ADMIT: ALL THAT'S LEFT IS FINDING BODIES AND WRECKAGE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amRescuers last night admitted they've given up hope of finding John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister alive, and shifted their focus to locating the wreckage of their...
CAROLINE KEEPS PRIVATE VIGIL ON L.I.: SISTER WAITS WITH HUBBY AND KIDS FOR FATEFUL WORD
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amWhile the bulk of the Kennedy family huddled together in Hyannis Port praying for their loved ones, the last heir to Camelot waited in her Long Island home for each...
BESSETTE PLAS CAN ONLY HOPE AND PRAY
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amGREENWICH, Conn. - Some prayed for a miracle. Others prayed for strength for the families of John F. Kennedy Jr., and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. As the Bessette family remained in...
HYANNIS PORT PALS CONCEDE: 'IT'S OVER' : NEIGHBORS STUNG BY THE SAD NEWS THEY HAD EXPECTED
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amHYANNIS PORT, Mass. - Neighbors of the Kennedy family here had been expecting the worst all day. But when officials all but declared John Kennedy Jr., his wife and his...
BOSS BACKS STRAW SAYS HE EXPECTS DARRYL TO RETURN
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner said yesterday he expects suspended slugger Darryl Strawberry to be back in Yankee pinstripes - and to be heard from in a big way - before the end...
ONCE A BUFFOON, ALWAYS ... JESSE CAN'T ESCAPE HIS STEROID-RIDDEN, RAUNCHY PAST
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amLAST November's election of Jesse (The Steroid-Enhanced Body) Ventura as governor of Minnesota, we were endlessly told by the news media, represented a citizenry that was fed up with the...
PERFECT CALL ALL THE WAY
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amNo screen clutter, no verbal stylings designed by John Sterling in tribute to John Sterling. Both TV and radio, yesterday, did a good, old- fashioned job of telling the story...
JENNY STAR GAZING AFTER CLASSIC WIN
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amIn a few years, when "The Jennifer Capriati Story: From stardom to shoplifting to champion," is a TV movie of the week, the A&P Classic will surely be mentioned as...
KENNEDY LEGACY REMEMBERED
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. 88 Cuba 52 SAN JUAN - The players on Dream Team IV are too young to fully understand the legacy of the Kennedy family. The coaches are not. But...
OL' RICKEY WON'T EVER SAY QUIT
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Bobby Valentine had a favored scenario in his head for Orel Hershiser to earn his 200th win Saturday. He wanted to see 40-year-old Rickey Henderson hit a three-run...
QUITE A COLLAPSE, BUT VAN WILL LIVE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00am"It is sad, but I'm all right. It's a game. At the end of the day, who will remember this in 200 years?"JEAN VAN DE VELDE CARNOUSTIE - True, the...
TRAINERS IN REAL HORSE RACE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe spring/summer meeting at Belmont enters its final week before racing shifts to Saratoga for six weeks. The trainer's race will be a battle as five trainers are separated by...
EXPOS KNEW KNOBBY'S PLAY WAS FINAL NAIL IN COFFIN
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Expos' Orlando Cabrera made the final out to end David Cone's perfect game yesterday, but he knew in the eighth inning that his team would not have a baserunner....
ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING FOR BRO
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amFor a guy who has only been a Yankee for a year and half, Scott Brosius has been involved in more historic plays than most players are in their careers....
'SPOS ARE IN AWE OF DAZZLING DAVID
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amSome teams are somber after being dominated, but the Expos are so young and were so overwhelmed, they seemed happy to have witnessed David Cone's perfect game yesterday at Yankee...
CONE'S ARM - AND HIS HEART - ARE MAGICAL
July 19, 1999 | 4:00am"Doctors only can tell half the story. There is a lot more to it than MRIs and medical reports."DAVID CONE BACK home in Kansas City, Mom and Dad listed to...
OUR MAN GETS PERFECT SEAT
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amFOR me, the best part about watching David Cone's perfect game yesterday was that I got to see it sitting next to Don Larsen. How perfect was that! Yep, I...
PERFECT ENDING TO BERRA'S 'DAY' CONE TOSSES HISTORIC GEM AS YOGI, LARSEN WATCH
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 6 Expos 0 Everything was perfect - the pre-game ceremonies, all the ironies, and most especially David Cone. With 41,930 on hand at the Stadium for Yogi Berra Day...
LAWRIE TAKES THE JUG:FRENCHMAN BLOWS UP, LOSES PLAYOFF
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amLawrie wins Open CARNOUSTIE - They've played 128 British Opens now and perhaps no final round in the fabled tournament's history has ever been cluttered with so many bizarre twists,...
FOR PETE'S SAKE, U.S. SICK OVER DAVIS LOSS
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amBROOKLINE, Mass. - The U.S. Davis Cup Team lost not only its quarterfinal tie with Australia, but a lot of its credibility yesterday at the Longwood Cricket Club. American Todd...
YOGI: GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amEver humble, Yogi Berra himself shied away from the title Greatest Living Yankee. But from the presentation the Bombers put on for Yogi Berra Day at the Stadium yesterday, it's...
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amPUT him on a stage on a hot summer afternoon in Cooperstown, surround him with Hall of Fame ballplayers and he's easy to spot. He's the misfit. Too short to...
LIVID LEONARD FEELS FOUL OVER BOGEY
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amCARNOUSTIE, Scotland Justin Leonard, livid at himself for bogeying No. 18 and figuring his British Open was over, was brooding over shooting 1-over-par on the calmest weather day of the...
MATTINGLY: RETURN POSSIBLE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00am"I don't know how I fit in with the rest of the guys out there," Don Mattingly said after the ceremonies yesterday at the Stadium on Yogi Berra Day. "But...
CHAVEZ BAGS 5 TO GAIN GROUND
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amJockey Jorge Chavez, making a late bid for the riding title at the Belmont Park spring-summer meet, capped a five-bagger yesterday, guiding longshot Mythical Gem to a gate-to-wire victory in...
STEINHAUER GOES OT TO TAKE BIG APPLE
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Curse of this Kane continues. Able she isn't - yet, so Lorie Kane is making a reputation of second-best. Yesterday, she wasn't able to take advantage of putting yips...
SHAKY LEDEE HOLDS ON
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amIt wouldn't be a perfect game without a few anxious moments and David Cone's masterpiece was no different yesterday. Two of the most uncertain plays served almost as bookends for...
NO BIRDIES, NO CHANCE FOR TIGER
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amOPEN NOTEBOOK CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - Once Jean Van de Velde imploded on the 72nd hole yesterday, ending the the tournament at 6-over, tied with Justin Leonard and winner Paul Lawrie,...
THE MAGIC KINGDOM: CONE ADDS TO STADIUM AURA
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amT HE first two innings I listened on a Walkman while jogging through Carroll Gardens. The third inning I watched David Cone strike out the side. Strike out the side...
FRANCO TOASTS CONEY'S GEM
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - With all their pitching talent they've had over the years, it's hard to believe the Mets have never had a no-hitter, much less a perfect game. Of course,...
PERFECT ENDING TO BERRA'S 'DAY' : CONE TOSSES HISTORIC GEM AS YOGI, LARSEN WATCH
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amDavid Cone's right arm - the same arm that had been cut open just three years ago to repair an aneurysm - reached back to throw his 88th and final...
CHILI KEEPS CONEY COOL
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amNo one on the face of the earth is more lonely than a pitcher closing in on a perfect game. That's why the sound of Chili Davis' voice was welcomed...
AGELESS RICKEY WRECKS BIRDS
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amMets 8 Orioles 6 BALTIMORE - Shortly before Rickey Henderson took the field in the Mets' 8-6 win over the Orioles last night, the leftfielder was asked how much longer...
AT END, GIRARDI PLAYS GUARDIAN
July 19, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES As Scott Brosius caught Orlando Cabrera's popup to cap David Cone's perfect game, it touched off a wild celebration on the field at the Stadium yesterday. But as...