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...route there were phone lines down, steeples and trees felled, cars bashed by limbs, roadways flooded, some roofs dislodged, boardwalks buckled, beaches undermined and eroded, small boats sunk, windows smashed. Bad enough, perhaps, but when contrasted with what had been expected, whew! again. New York City Mayor Edward Koch found his typically unique words to express the relief felt by almost everybody: "We scared the hell out of the hurricane, and it went elsewhere...
Heir presumptive to Jean--Jacques Beneix's Diva and Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours meanders along to the beat of a surrealistic cinematographic drummer by photography director Michael Ballhaus, who captures that side of New York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing...
...school-board policy. In a bizarre twist to that case last week, the attorney representing the second- grader announced that there is evidence that the child does not have AIDS after all. The city health department stuck by its contention that the youngster has AIDS. Mayor Edward I. Koch said last week that he would appoint a medical panel to review the recommendations of the existing committee that decides whether to admit AIDS patients to school...
When New York public health inspectors shut down "K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen" last spring, the hungry followers of gastronome Paul Prudhomme howled: their cry was so vociferous that Mayor Edward I. Koch intervened to lift the restaurant's suspension. And, the next day, the story appeared on the front page of The New York Times...
...three terms as mayor of New York City, a politician must come to personify the town. Fiorello La Guardia and Robert Wagner did so and became the only three-termers in the 20th century. Now the brash and blabby Edward Koch is about to join them. Last week he won the nomination for a third four- year term with the heaviest majority in any Democratic mayoral primary this century. Koch, 60, vaporized his opponents, City Council President Carol Bellamy and Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., by taking 64% of the city's Democratic vote. His electric personality and his record...