Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much demand is coming from Americans who apparently no longer trust their own currency. Says Gold Trader Joel Goodman of Perera Co. in Manhattan "The whole clientele has changed. I'm now selling to the little investor who wants to protect his savings from the effects of inflation. Money is coming out of bank accounts, stocks and even real estate and going into gold...
There might have been a decent picture here. Set in the high-fashion demimonde of Manhattan, the film has an intriguing heroine in Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway), a chic photographer who shoots in Helmut Newton's sadomasochistic style. The film's premise, though farfetched, also has possibilities. Laura, it turns out, is a psychic whose nightmare visions of ghoulish murders actually come true. But the script doesn't develop its basic materials. The aesthetic and ethical issues raised by Laura's photographs are never worked into the story; the heroine's psychic powers have...
...Landess, 38, a psychotherapist, and his wife, Marcia McBroom, 28, an actress and model, live in Manhattan and between them earn $80,000. But, Ira contends, they are still struggling to keep their heads above water. Says he: "We have no exorbitant expenses, but it is not easy to save." Perhaps so, but they rent a two-bedroom penthouse at $616 a month, take lots of taxis, go on frequent overseas vacations, eat in gourmet restaurants and have a housekeeper who helps look after their baby. Ira believes that "you can make do with one income, but you get accustomed...
...Algiers. Page subsequently sold Amin a Lockheed cargo plane and furnished crews for it. When Amin wanted to buy medical supplies and seed wheat, Page executives rounded them up from U.S. suppliers. Amin gave Wilmorite the contract to build Uganda's new $5 million U.N. mission in Manhattan. Only after Congress began investigating U.S. suppliers selling equipment to Uganda about a year ago did Page break its aircraft service contract with Amin...
...embassy in New Delhi epitomized the highly embellished style of his later years; after a brief illness, in New York. Touring Europe in 1927, Stone had his first look at the stark glass and aluminum "international style" that he would use in his 1937 design for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. But years later, after his El Panama Hotel in Panama City was built in 1949, Stone denounced his austere designs as resembling "the latest model automobile, doomed to early obsolescence." Aiming at what he called the "assurance of permanence," he turned to more solid structures of concrete...