Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuisinart food processor, flashed it on a Comp IV desktop computer game, scented it with Chanel No. 19 and set it to play with Star Wars toys. Those items sold briskly this Christmas, as did women's underpants labeled "Bloomie's" (for Bloomingdale's, the big Manhattan department store) and hundreds of other expensive baubles for the kitchen, bedroom, bath and body. When the buying spree ended on Christmas Eve, U.S. retailers, as exhausted as their customers, could look back on their most successful Christmas ever...
FROM THE OUTSIDE, Brooklyn doesn't look like much. Of course, some people would say it doesn't look like much from the inside either. Cross the East River from Manhattan into Brooklyn on the D train and all you'll see will be run-down houses, grimy and depressing factories, litter-lined streets and people. Three million people. Italian, Black, Jewish, Hispanic, Irish people. And not one of them ever said dese, dem, dose in his life...
...Jewish comedians from Brooklyn have helped perpetuate these stereotypes--everyone from Woody Allen to Mel Brooks to Gabe Kaplan to Alan King is guilty. But the myth that Brooklyn is a teeming mass of poverty, illiteracy, downright stupidity and silly accents whose only redeeming quality is its proximity to Manhattan is totally baseless...
...York has a new mayor now, and he means well, but it remains to be seen if Uncle Ed can cope with the city's problems all by himself. The borough of Brooklyn can't be saved by people in Washington, or Albany, or even Manhattan; it has to save itself at the grass roots level, through community organizations and the spirit of self-help. That spark of life just doesn't seem to be present anymore...
...talk of the town in Manhattan's backstabbing, gossipy advertising business is the extraordinary success of Peter Rogers, 43, who has built a booming business grossing $10 million by breaking almost all the rules of the game. He has never solicited an account, yet the roster of clients he represents?including Bulgari, the famous jewelers, Danskin's nylon tights, and Fashion Designer Pauline Trigère?has grown from ten to 32 in the past two years...