Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...improve the quality of life." She repeatedly emphasizes the need to modernize and upgrade the rapid transit system. To do that she would abandon the $1 billion Westway road project, a controversial plan favored by the business community and many political leaders because it would promote development in Lower Manhattan. Most of the money would come from Washington, but under legislation pushed by Abzug while she was in Congress, such highway funds can be "traded in" for mass-transit money...
Died. Sue Kaufman, 50, journalist and author (Diary of a Mad Housewife Falling Bodies); in Manhattan. Diary, a novel that explored the vulnerabilities and frustrations of a sophisticated young couple trying to make it in Manhattan, was later a successful movie...
Died. Irving H. Saypol, 71, justice of the New York State Supreme Court who was federal prosecutor in the 1951 espionage-conspiracy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; of cancer; in Manhattan. As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Saypol also supervised cases against Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and top U.S. Communist leaders...
...they describe is more settled and hence readily encapsulated. The "period rooms"-unconvincing reconstructions of the Gertrude Stein salon at 27, Rue de Fleurus, the "291" gallery in which Alfred Stieglitz introduced Matisse, Brancusi and modern photography to a tiny coterie in New York, and Piet Mondrian's Manhattan studio, among other places-are tackily made and none too accurate. But the paintings fare better...
...newer to French than to American eyes -most of it comes from U.S. collections -but there is one sublime group of paintings that have never been seen together in public before: Piet Mondrian's series of canvases centered around Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942-43), done in exile in Manhattan. They make up one of the most exalted statements about ideal form in the history of art. One gains, at 30 years' distance, a full sense of why Mondrian's fanatical purity and countervailing richness of surface so obsessed his American followers...