Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concludes Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Abrahamsen in Nixon vs. Nixon: An Emotional Tragedy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $10.95), the latest entry in the burgeoning field known as "psychobiography.'' Psychobiographers seek to explain the lives of famous people by theorizing about their inner psyches. The best-known and most respected practitioner, Erik Erikson, subjected Luther and Gandhi to the treatment. Sigmund Freud once collaborated (with William Bullitt) on a job on Woodrow Wilson. By now psychobiography has become such a fad that last year an American Psychiatric Association task force recommended that psychiatrists avoid such projects unless the subjects...
...Cold Storage, now at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Ribman's Talmudic scholar is an old, self-educated Armenian greengrocer, Joseph Parmigian (Martin Balsam). He is dying of cancer in a New York hospital yet he has the juices of a Middle East Falstaff flowing in him, and he knows that none die with honor except those who laugh at fate...
...radical groups, and is alleged to have regularly pilfered letters from relatives and friends of suspected terrorist fugitives. The indictment charges that in carrying out "the mail run," as the agents came to call it, they used illegally obtained mailbox keys and opened the letters at FBI headquarters in Manhattan with a "steamer"-a device that allows resealing without evidence of tampering. Agents also tapped phones of numerous eavesdropping targets without obtaining required court permission. Despite those efforts, they failed to turn up Bernardine Dohrn or other Weather Underground fugitives accused of complicity in various protest bombing attacks...
...agents, composers, publishers-and, of course, psychiatrists-loved to mix with Adela and her third husband, Peter Holzer, who at one time or another has owned shipping and freight-forwarding companies. Everything about Adela, who claims to be 43, reeks of wealth: her multicarat jewels, her Halston gowns, her Manhattan town house (the taxes alone are $14,-000), her country home in New Jersey, complete with pool, sauna, gym and tennis court. So when Adela started jabbering to her friends about ingenious ways of making money, they listened...
...heard about Holzer's wizardry through a friend and invested $2,500 in what she understood was a "cement deal." The first $600 in profits was to have been mailed to her more than a year ago; so far she has not seen a cent. Guillermo Seco, a Manhattan physician, made a $35,000 investment through Holzer, who, he claims, sent him glowing earnings reports of the venture. But when it came time to collect his profits, he could not. He sued and won a court judgment of $181,018. Holzer declines to discuss details of precisely...