Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wynn quickly felt at home in Manhattan. Just before Jimmy Carter's speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Wynn spotted two old friends from Saudi Arabia. Both are now ambassadors, but Wynn had not seen them since they were students of his at the American University of Cairo, where he taught journalism in 1945-47. "We started talking about college days," he says, "but I soon shifted the conversation to the political situation in the Middle East. They proved excellent sources...
...that the ballet virtuoso never knew. The role demands a certain presence, a knack for walking into a roomful of gaping admirers and creating an aura. Some scenes seem structured with this purpose in mind; at one point. Nureyev completely upstages a porcine-looking boor in a fashionable Manhattan night club by sweeping the latter's mistress off her feet. The episode, although somewhat gratuitous, is meant to show Valentino's swashbuckling stride. The desired effect is partly produced, but the strain behind the effort becomes obvious...
...Competing national brewers have been in a ferment over such new sound-alike low-calorie beers as Light and Lite. Even nicknames can create legal hassles. The owners of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune have just gone to court to stop alleged trademark infringement by a proposed new Manhattan daily called the Trib...
DIED. Geoffrey T. Hellman, 70, prolific New Yorker staff writer for close to half a century; of cancer; in Manhattan. Hellman's contributions to "Talk of the Town," his acerbic profiles of such legendary characters as Alfred Knopf, and his portraits of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History ("Bankers, Bones, and Beetles") are masterpieces of New Yorker prose...
TARTUFFE by Moliere comedy" is a modern term, Moliere was a master of the genre over three centuries ago. His characters have a schizophrenic quality; their glib and merry lips belie broody, troubled hearts. The present production of Tartuffe at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is infectiously high-spirited, but it scants the biting melancholy wisdom that animates Moliere's satiric moral vision. Fortunately, wading only knee-deep in Moliere is more bracing than total immersion in most playwrights...