Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novels were first published in Poland in 1971, but one is set in the Rocky Mountains, and the other starts in the Costa Rica Hilton and moves to Manhattan. Lem is an Eastern European but his mind wanders in an American technological wilderness, and the paranoia he evokes is at home under the shadow of the Science Center. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub starts where a comfortable narrative would already be well into the body of its tale. The narrator is in some indefinite Pentagon Three, buried deep within the Rocky Mountains. Pentagon Three, with thousands of offices, miles...
...where Galante lives (an old, unprepossessing apartment house in Greenwich Village); where he eats (facing the door at a small restaurant near the Fulton Fish Market); where he "works" (a dry-cleaning business he supposedly owns in Little Italy); where he plays (his mistress's flat in Manhattan's Murray Hill section). Already this close surveillance has forced Galante to make one change: his 21-year-old daughter Nina used to cart him everywhere in a gold Eldorado, but now that the press has identified (and in gangland parlance "burned") her, Galante has had to switch chauffeurs...
Raunchy Humor. Some of MacLaine's past performances have shown a few scuff marks. During her solo show at Manhattan's Palace Theater last year, she offended fans with some raunchy onstage humor and with a characterization of New York as "the Karen Quinlan of cities"-a reference to the comatose New Jersey girl who aroused a nationwide debate on medical life-support responsibilities. Says Shirley: "I put my foot in my mouth a whole lot. But there's plenty of room in there for both feet, as I've proved quite often. With some left...
...thing about the invasion of Manhattan by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian press lord, is that so far the newspaper most improved by his arrival is not his Post but its tabloid rival the New York Daily News. Though it still has the largest daily circulation of any American paper, the News's circulation has been going down. Under the editorship of Michael O'Neill, it has forsworn its vulgar and unreliable ways. It covers serious news seriously, where once it was prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing...
...took part in this odd dialogue is about to become a star He was working out the script, costuming and lighting of his own personal sex fantasy, which he will act out with the Project, a theater group that has been performing in a creaking loft in lower Manhattan. During both their regular shows and the weekly audience-participation night, the Project's five actors and actresses concentrate with missionary zeal on their goal: to purge the demons of the audience's sexual fantasies...