Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rock musicians live in baggage-claim areas and hotel suites. Last month she hit Washington as if it were any other one-night stand, sang at Jimmy Carter's Inaugural concert ("I was so nervous. My God, I was awful!") and then, on a whim, freighted on to Manhattan to watch a performance of NBC's Saturday Night show and to hang out with actors and rock friends. New York's Plaza, that swan-bosomed dowager among luxury hotels, has become a favorite roosting place for wealthy rockers (Ringo was there too). To Linda, the Plaza...
...eyes of his admirers, Rafael Ferrer's art has come to represent Puerto Rico, rather as the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez stand for Colombia. Certainly, Ferrer-now 44, and having his latest one-man show at Manhattan's Nancy Hoffman Gallery-has not yet produced his masterpiece, his Hundred Years of Solitude. But if any Latin American artist of his generation is likely...
Unamusing Neurotics. The marital combatants are Mario Thomas and Charles Grodin, and the casus belli is their upward social mobility. He has become the headmaster of a fashionable Manhattan private school; she is still teaching in a public school in a slum. He is very pleased with their new high-rise apartment; she is so displeased that she has sent their antique furniture to their first apartment on the Lower East Side, in the neighborhood where they grew up. He is glumly preoccupied with getting and spending, she with gaminish stratagems designed to break through his fagade of indifference. None...
Photographer's Model Cristina Raines likes her new apartment with its view of the Manhattan skyline, but the neighbors are a little strange. When she drops in for tea with the lesbians downstairs (Sylvia Miles and Beverly D'An-gelo), one of them masturbates in front of her. Fey old Burgess Meredith, who has a fixation on his cat and an unearthly gleam in his eye, drags her upstairs to a spooky party. At night somebody overhead stamps and clanks until Raines' chandeliers sway like a leftover set from The Exorcist. But then, what did she expect...
...Bank of America more than $3 million. Northwest Airlines is fighting a court decision ordering it to pay compensation to some 3000 stewardesses. The cost could run to $40 million. Current targets of such suits include Reader's Digest, Newsday, Saks Fifth Avenue and nine high-priced Manhattan restaurants that refuse to hire women as waitresses. One restaurant that has already knuckled under: New York's venerable "21," which recently paid damages and hired its first women to wait on tables...