November 6, 1995

More on the Gunman

If you thought the Jets' muddled quarterback situation could not get worse, think again. Today, in a 20-7 loss to the New England Patriots, it went from bad to good to very good to awful, and the awful part was not the doing of Glenn Foley, the Jets' bright light of the day. Instead, it was his season-ending injury on the Jets' last scrimmage play of the game, a dislocated right shoulder for a right-handed passer. Boomer Esiason, the Jets' nominal starter, was the No. 3 quarterback again, partly to continue recovery from post-concussion syndrome and partly because the Jets seem to be looking at other options. So Bubby Brister made his fourth straight start and achieved little.

Israelis moved today in a daze of disbelief, and they struggled for words that might do justice to what was etched in their faces. An artisan in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem's Old City said he felt as if he had been orphaned. A barber on a pedestrian mall said his pain was as searing as an ulcer. A student in an outlying neighborhood said he was living out a horror show.

Attending a movie in New York City often requires plenty of advance planning as the city has far fewer movie screens per person than most other large cities. Besides beeing scarce, the screens are spread out; over 60 percent of the city's screens are in theaters of one to three screens, compared to 49 percent nationwide. Recently the multiplex boom has come to New York with the success of the 12-screen Sony theater on the Upper West Side and planned multiplexes un Union Square and 42d Street. The number of movie screens has increased about 12 percent in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Movies cost more in Manhattan than anywhere alse in the country, though the price of seeing a movie in one of the other New York City boroughs is comparable to other cities.

Two hospitals with roots in Newark are trying to decide if they want to spend the future together. Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Barnabas Medical Center have both named representatives to a committee to consider options for affiliation, said Lester A. Lieberman, chairman of the Beth Israel board. Newark Beth Israel, founded in 1901 and the only hospital in New Jersey that performs heart and lung transplants, has 607 beds and about 3,300 employees. St. Barnabas Medical Center, founded in Newark in 1865 and now based in Livingston, has 620 beds and 3,000 workers.