Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just received my diploma from P.S. 22 in Manhattan after 70 years, and now you're inviting me to speak at Harvard," the ageless Burns noted. "Come to think of it, that's the only thing that could top playing 'God' in the movies," he added...
...full-fledged plants are in operation using varied technologies, another twelve are under construction, and many more are in different stages of planning. The latest and largest municipality to join the switch to garbage power is New York City, which in December announced that it was negotiating with Manhattan-based Ashmont Systems to build a plant on the grounds of the former Brooklyn Navy Yard. The facility would take in 2,400 tons of garbage a day and supply heat and electricity for nearby industrial users. Earlier the city began talks with another firm, Combustion Equipment Associates...
...Doolittle of do-it-yourself is a 35-year-old New Yorker named Spiros Zakas. A highly successful commercial designer and author who recently revamped Chicago's venerable Pump Room, Zakas also teaches at Manhattan's famed Parsons School of Design (wherefrom, nearly 50 years ago, issued the Parsons table). Zakas' book, Furniture in 24 Hours (Macmillan; $10.95), a collection of his own designs and those of his most inventive pupils, has gone through six printings in little over a year. Its 128 pages are a potpourri of practical pieces that range from ad hoc aphrodisiac...
...moving apart from this Italian ghetto. And that growth is immeasurably accelerated by Stephanie Mangano (Karen Lynn Gorney), another Bay Ridge dancer whom Tony meets at the 2001 and with whom he inevitably falls in love. Stephanie looks down on Tony and his neighborhood because she works in a Manhattan record agency, where everything is beautiful: "The people are beautiful, the offices are beautiful, lunch hours are beautiful, everyone shops at Bonwit Teller," she maintains. The first time Tony and Stephanie talk over coffee is a funny scene, with Stephanie obnoxiously dropping names of the movie and rock stars...
...starts walking up on the bridge's restraining rail. In a scene that shoots for terrifying and disturbing, but only winds up depressing and irritating, Bobby falls off the bridge and drowns. Tony walks all night and the next morning shows up at Stephanie's, ready to move into Manhattan, get a job and give up dancing...