Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy is the concentration of communications operations in midtown Manhattan that the New York blackout had an impact that was immediately felt throughout the nation-and the world as well. All three networks transmit their signals from New York by air waves to relay towers and satellites-or by cables-for pickups by affiliate stations across the country. The two major U.S. wire services, Associated Press and United Press International, feed news from New York headquarters to more than 16,000 U.S. and foreign newspapers, radio stations and TV news desks. Scores of New York-based syndicates, ranging from...
...told it, her life read like the scenario for a Broadway musical: the rebellious daughter of a rich Madrid family flees her unloving husband and arrives in Manhattan, pregnant, frightened and perilously low on funds. She endures trials that would break a lesser spirit. Finally, thanks to her beguiling charm, brains ("The bankers could not keep up with me ") and beauty, she achieves a success no other woman has ever attained-she becomes Broadway's boldest angel (a $57,000 investment in Hair brings a $2 million gain) and its hottest producer. And guess what? On the side...
According to the 99-page indictment filed against Holzer by New York Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz, she stole $824,820 from some of her investors in a variety of deals and issued false records "with intent to defraud." One example: an allegedly altered bank statement from a Chase Manhattan branch in Indonesia listed her balance as $10 million. In reality, her deposits at the time were less than...
...equally rich-American divorcee. They married in 1919; thereafter, the Porters embodied the '20s dictum, "Living well is the best revenge." They discovered the Riviera before anyone else, kept houses in Paris, California, Massachusetts-and an apartment on the 41st floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan...
Porter deserves a biography as witty and entertaining as he was. Given the complexity of his work, he will no doubt get one some day. Brendan Gill did not write it, nor has Charles Schwartz, a professor of music at Manhattan's Hunter College. Though Schwartz gives the facts of Porter's life, he has forgotten too much of the fun. His book truly comes to life only when he quotes his subject's lyrics. The difference between stolid narration and bright rhymes is the difference, in Cole Porter's words, between the good turtle soup...