Word: lofts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something's wrong. The observer has been told to meet the international dazzler Clotilde, a model near the very tip of top-top, at a photographer's studio in a loft building above Manhattan's Union Square. He finds the address and introduces himself to the photographer, a small, quiet-mannered Japanese woman named Nana Watanabe. There are two or three other women in the studio from Danskin, a manufacturer known for leotards and tights, for whom Watanabe is shooting a couple of catalogues. And here comes another gofer of some kind, a plain-faced, skinny young woman...
...churches became the focus of Irish social and cultural events in the city--helping people find jobs, sponsoring charity, publishing newspapers and organizing debates, concert plays. In 1854, Father Lawrence Carroll, pastor of St. John's started the "St. John's Literary Institute" in a loft above a butcher shop on Bridge St. While the scholars at Harvard debated Plato and Locke at one end of town, grown men learned the fundamentals of spelling and arithmetic at the other. Members of the Institute helped found a library, for many years the only one in East Cambridge...
Many incentives to locate businesses in decaying inner cities, such as the abatement of state and local taxes and rock-bottom market values of land already exist in our slums. A factory owner can buy a square foot of industrial loft space in the South Bronx for two dollars per square foot. For the same price, he could only rent this much space for one year in northern New Jersey...
Waits also spent a good portion of 1979 holed up in a Paris loft, collaborating with artist Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams) on a book of portraits of American heroes, to which Waits has contributed the text. "You know, people like Marlene Dietrich, Mohammad Ali, Meyer Lansky, Pearl Bailey, Jimmy Durante, Adam Clayton Powell...
...staff meetings in her elegantly spacious office. Gathered around her burnished Louis XV desk, some 20 directors and buyers bring forward the trendy products that they have scouted out from as far away as mountain villages in southern Italy or as near as a young designer's SoHo loft: cardigans in this fall's newest colors (baby pastels), crepe de Chine jumpsuits by Stephen Burrows, $85 knit caps from Paris. The show-and-tell sessions can last for three hours. Then, with her merchant's instinct, Geraldine (Gerry) Stutz, 56, grandly decides which products Henri Bendel will...