Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Life in Hell's Kitchen has been heaven," rhapsodizes Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone. The Italian Stallion is back on location in the tenements-this time not on the Rocky roads of Philadelphia, but on Manhattan's West Side. In Paradise Alley, Stallone plays Cosmo, a 1940s street hustler who hangs out with a beautiful hooker (Joyce Ingalls). The dialogue, raw and raunchy, is written by-who else? But not content with being both author and star, Sly is also making his directing debut. His early impressions: "I'm learning how the other half lives through others from...
...does get around. For ten days, it was an endless whirl of parties in Ireland. Back in the U.S., Miss Lillian barely had time to unpack before she was out on the town in Manhattan. At a lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much...
John Dean is a one. A famous opera singer is a five. Manhattan Psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, who invented the eye-roll scale in the first place, is in the middle, between a two and a three...
...rare, elegant foodstuffs. The amount spent on specialty foods by the average family has increased over the past five years by 20%. New cooks are also spending vast amounts on the steel, plastic, wire and wooden twiddlybits with which to turn their foodstuffs into ambrosial dinners. Zabar's, a Manhattan shop that stocks everything from French dry morels ($5.95 per oz.) to a $1,000 espresso-cappuccino machine, has increased its sales sixteenfold over the past dozen years. Says Co-Owner Murray Klein: "We have never seen such an explosion of food buying." Supermarkets from coast to coast now stock...
...Macy's in Manhattan's Herald Square, the basement where women once battled with umbrellas for lingerie markdowns has become one of New York City's great gastronomic pleasure domes. At hand in Macy's Cellar are 200 varieties of cheese, 100 jams and jellies, 50 breads, a dozen coffees and 40 teas ? as well as an Aladdin's palace of equipment wherewith to transform the raw stuff into rare meals...