Word: gotham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whirled out of Esquire and the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine supplement to announce the coming of the pop-rock culture. Readers accustomed to spending their weekends with articles like "Brazil: Colossus of the South" were suddenly snapping awake to such Wolfean fare as "Oh, Rotten Gotham -Sliding Down Into the Behavioral Sink," "Natalie Wood and the Shockkkkkk of Recognition" and "Muvva Earth and Codpiece Pants." The prose itself rollicked with words like "lollygagging" and "infarcted," embedded in pages that were covered with a confetti of punctuation marks...
...their drawn butter before facing red-hot Vitas ("Not a Social Disease") Gerulaitis, Billie Jean King and the rest of the New York Apples at home on Monday. The netpeople will get a rest after that, facing only lowly Seattle at home on Wednesday before heading down to Gotham for another match with the New Yorkers...
...holding a 20-percentage-point lead in most polls, while Goodman and Farber muddle around in the single-digit range. But if most New Yorkers believe Koch is the answer, they seem to have failed to ask the question: Who is Koch, and why is he going to run Gotham? What makes him different from Cuomo, Beame, or the rest of the lifeless pack...
...Last Tycoon (played by Robert De Niro in the movie) who presided over a cosmos of exploding egos in order to produce celluloid fantasies. Powell was beset by a nervous President, a clamorous diplomatic gallery, shouting reporters, Israelis, Arabs and the usual indignities of just being in Gotham...
...announcement for weeks. Still, when she decided to make the toss official, Bella, 56, announced again, with characteristic vigor. "I'm rarin' to go," she declared to supporters at her kickoff rally. "I'm good from top to bottom and every other part in between." Most Gotham handicappers are willing to believe her: Bella is rated a strong primary threat to Mayor Abraham Beame...