Word: gate
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Sixteen hundred freshmen implies 1600 freshman stories. Some are funny; most are ordinary. Once in a rare while a freshman story will embody the absolute essence of mortal terror and existential nausea, a crash dive into the dark firmament of human life. In these stories the inscription above Dexter Gate reads not "Enter to grow in wisdom," but instead "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
...many in the business, his name means money out of the bank. His last film, Year of the Dragon, got mixed reviews and was a box-office flop; the one before, Heaven's Gate, wrote the book--and was the subject of one--on celluloid disasters. But that has not stopped Director Michael Cimino from undertaking yet another big-budget epic: The Sicilian, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel. Now being filmed in Italy, the movie centers on the short, bloody career of Italian Gangster Salvatore Giuliano, a real-life Robin Hood of the late '40s who dreamed...
...they might have prowled Bleecker Street looking for Woody Allen or Bob Dylan or a quick fix of transcendence. Now they are back in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in search of an easy key to their past. Most of the crowd filing into the Top of the Village Gate is early middle-aged, with a sprinkling of children. The occasion could be parents' night at a progressive school. Instead it is a rite of commercial nostalgia: Beehive, two hours of songs from girl singers and girl groups of the '60s. Six wailing women, six guys in the house band...
...show, which opened last November at Sweetwater's nightclub in uptown Manhattan, has played to healthy houses at the Gate since March and has already recouped its $175,000 investment. A Washington company has extended its run after a sold-out six-week engagement. Beehive's producers will open a West Coast version of the show and are negotiating for other companies in Boston, Cleveland, New Orleans and Dallas, while fielding calls of interest from Japan, Britain, Monte Carlo, Israel and Australia. Our music, it seems, was their music; our past is Beehive's bankroll. "If you're between...
Suddenly the pious atmosphere was shattered. Two young men who had been loitering outside, posing as tourists, pulled out Polish-made submachine guns and shot the custodian at the gate. Shouting in Arabic, they burst into the sanctuary, dropped an iron bar across the door to block it and, standing ten yards apart, began strafing the congregation. Shopkeepers nearby, just opening their stores or stalls for business, listened in horror to the rattle of gunfire and the screams of the dying. "I heard gunshots," said one bystander. "Then I saw a young man with injured feet come out yelling...