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...floor space has been newly rented since January. Says Lewis Rudin of Manhattan's Rudin Management: "I counted up $1 billion-that's billion-of privately financed new construction the other day." He listed, among other projects, the $110 million AT&T headquarters at 55th and Madison and the $80 million IBM building at 57th and Madison. There is an apartment shortage in Manhattan, with co-ops selling for prices that would have been impossible only a year ago. Luxury buildings like the Olympic Tower, opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the Galleria, on 57th Street -both...
...been seven or eight years since that hardy band of former 'Poonies and their associates brought out their satiric vehicle, and it has served them quite well. Today they have fancy offices on Madison Avenue, plush brown carpet and lots of smoked glass (a/k/a/ executive hip) and like good businessmen they've diversified--going into records, off-Broadway shows, T-shirts, radio hours and whatnot. A few of their kids even helped start the once-hysterical Saturday Night Live. And while success has been good to them, it has also made them a little stale. The magazine is nowhere near...
...albums are getting played plenty. FM radio seems inundated, Darkness has just gone platinum, and Springsteen, en route to three sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden later this month, is currently storming the heartland, dishing out 2½ hours of red-hot rock. His E Street Band helps keep things always at the boiling point. They are powerhouse musicians who have raised roadhouse rock to Olympian heights. The driving delicacy of Roy Bittan's piano, Danny Federici's flights of rough-and-tumble fantasy on the organ, and the hang-tough beat of Max Weinberg's drums, Garry Tallent...
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What infuriates me, as a daughter of Britain and a student of Arthurian legend, is to read again in White about the audacity of the Kennedys in presenting that unspectacular Administration as "Camelot." It is an insult to those of us with sense enough to recognize a Madison Avenue promotion when we see one, and it is quite galling to see how the American press promotes this myth. Let the Kennedys and their "historians" fall back on the Blarney Stone, where they belong...