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...this seems to have been accomplished on a shoestring. Farrar, Straus is well known for skimpy salaries. It has occupied the same dingy office space in downtown Manhattan -- far out of the midtown orbit of most of the giant firms -- for more than 20 years. Wolfe politely describes the low-rent decor as a "nice saggy-book look." The waiting area contains a desk and a single metal chair. But then no one waits very long. The thing authors like best about FS&G is that they get to meet the people who work there. Says Brodsky: "Other publishers could...
...Until then, this assembly of 30,000 producers, directors, stars, distributors, critics and other swains of the celluloid muse could find little to cheer and even less to condemn. Oh, sure, you could watch Michael Sarrazin strangle a nude hermaphrodite in the Belgian thriller Mascara. You could cruise the low-rent Film Market and see ads for such films as Assault of the Killer Bimbos, Space Sluts in the Slammer and Surf Nazis Must Die. You could catch Jean-Luc Godard in a typically impish auto-da-fe. This year the Peter Pan of enfants terribles presented a captious, grating...
...time for a reasoned, measured and effective response to the complaints of the low-rent landlords whether they are "small property owners" or "Class D" owners or are incapable by language, education or other reasons to effectively manage their rental properties. There is a crying need for an ongoing program to identify these "hardship" buildings and through an ombudsman position at the rent board to expedite appropriate adjustments. An ombudsman is authorized by the Rent Control Act, but has never been properly funded by the city council or the city manager...
...purpose of art is to reflect and illuminate the spirit of its age, then New York City's avant-garde scene in the '60s and early '70s was a worthy expression of a tumultuous time. Huddled together in a few low-rent blocks of lower Manhattan, a remarkable band of visual artists, theatrical innovators, dancers and composers, loosely allied in their rejection of both traditionalism and a previous generation's idea of radicalism, supported and inspired one another in what was then a lonely pursuit. "The collaborative element of those years was crucial," remembers Composer Philip Glass. "I mean...
...visiting two-legged cur with a casual interest was soon made aware that there are 48 million dogs in America, 14 million of which are purebred, the rest of which are indiscriminate with their low-rent rendezvous. Further, the AKC is one of the oldest amateur-sports governing bodies in the U.S., and it oversees about 10,000 dog shows, obedience trials and field trials annually. To boot (now comes the information picked up around the fringe), Ralston Purina is self-described as "the most trusted name in pet foods," while Mighty Dog is "the pure beef brand," though...