Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement turns out to be that of a "sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details of the life. She even slipped out between rehearsals to Manhattan's raunchy Times Square to gain insight into the local working girls at their trade-and to have her picture taken...
...Look, I'm a married lady. I love my husband and I love music." Her New York trip, she added, was a vacation devoted to photography. Said Trudeau, back in Ottawa: "This has been planned for some time." An aggrieved Jagger added his own disclaimer. From the Manhattan town house where he was staying with his wife Bianca and their ailing five-year-old daughter, the Prince of Rock declared that hints of dalliance with Margaret were "insulting to me and insulting...
...superiors explain that it was easier to find a new theater critic (second-string Times film reviewer Richard Eder) than to replace Oxford-schooled Balletomane Barnes as dance expert, the job for which he was imported from London in 1965. There were other possible reasons: many in Manhattan's theater community resented Barnes' immense power, and some disliked his tendency to review plays as works of literature rather than live performances. Barnes, 49, has also starred in local gossip columns concerning some marital problems, and his bosses at the Times were thought to be not amused, a prudishness...
...Shortly after Carll Tucker, a book and theater critic for the Village Voice, turned 25, his father-in-law, Manhattan Radio Station Owner R. Peter Straus, took him to breakfast to discuss the young man's future employment prospects. Straus brought along Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review since he turned 25 in 1940. Cousins "liked the cut of his jib" and last week found something for young Tucker to do: buy and then edit Saturday Review. The price was from $3 million to $6.5 million, depending on various future expenses, and part of the money comes from...
...atmosphere was jubilant when Feld unveiled his seven-minute romp through Americana at Manhattan's City Center last week. It was the first Broadway run for the troupe that Joseph Papp has housed at the Public Theater for all of its nearly three-year existence. This time the company danced to a real orchestra, playing in the pit, instead of to a solo piano or a tape. The stars were Christine Sarry, Feld's favorite ballerina, and Guest Artist Mikhail Baryshnikov...