Word: lofts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brain that hatched Gremlins was 21 years old at the time and productively disturbed. In the summer of 1981, Chris Columbus, a former student at the New York University Film School, was living in a loft in the garment district of Manhattan. "When I went to sleep at night," he recalls, "I could hear mice scurrying along the floor. I slept with my arm draped over the side of the bed, hanging just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea...
...world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her 80s, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play). She never answers letters, for years has hardly glanced at a newspaper. But before her Tammany husband died in 1915 she spent eight years vainly trying...
...neighborhood bar, Alex (Jennifer Beals) and her chums put on a sexy, high-tech floor show that could exist only in Wayne Newton's dreams. One after another, lithe stunners display terrific muscle tone in discreet rock-'n'-roll stripteases. Alex lives in a loft about the size of SoHo, where she rehearses her dream: to win a job with the local ballet company. She gets it, helped by some slow-motion and quick-cut camera effects-and by an unbilled French dancer who played stunt double for some of Beals...
...sense it is. With its roots in movements as disparate as Dada and the '60s happenings, performance art may be described as the 20th century equivalent of 16th century Florentine opera, an attempt to fuse many diverse art forms into a new, coherent whole. In her loft in lower Manhattan, Anderson, the object of a cult following since the mid-'70s, has been working on United States for four years. O Superman, a song included on her first commercial album, Big Science, has sold nearly 800,000 copies worldwide, and went to No. 2 on the British...
...setting. There are no romantic sidewalk cafes or sunsets over the Eiffel Tower in this Paris. Instead, the viewer enters a world of neon and cellophane and leather--a world in which vast underground garages contain video palaces and cats have names like "Ayatollah" and everyone lives in a loft. And yet, what makes this punked-out environment intriguing is that it contains many small reminders of the old Paris. Jules first meets Alba when he watches her shoplift records in a discomat. She is dressed completely in plastic and carries a portfolio of naked self-portraits. She says things...