Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a quick end to such a quick career. The son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Hungarian father, Prinze had used his wit to survive among the teen-age toughs in the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Disarming his foes with switchblade-sharp one-liners, he avoided the fighting he hated. At the High School for Performing Arts, Prinze's ability to twit his own background-the comedic formula he never abandoned-earned him star status in the boys' room, where he would try out his routines. His ethnic-based act worked...
...sexually threatened," says Cambridge, Mass., Teacher Jean Kilbourne, who lectures on the influence of the communications industry. "The image of the abused woman is a logical extension of putting the uppity woman in her place." Many psychiatrists agree that the trend reflects the emotional problems of males. Says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Lawrence Hatterer: "Men's angry and hostile and impotent feelings are surfacing in all these ways because men don't know where to go with these feelings...
Perhaps nowhere is kissing more widely and elaborately practiced than in Manhattan, whose nervous system, from SoHo to Sardi's and on uptown, handles an immense traffic of social signals. But social kissing is also rampant in California, usually in the form of a double peck on the cheeks. Many believe it has gone too far. Says Los Angeles Social Leader Betsy Bloomingdale: "I find myself kissing and wishing I hadn't. You risk being rude if you kiss one person and not another. And there are awkward moments when you don't know whether to kiss...
...writer and wife of former White House Aide Leonard Garment; by her own hand; on Dec. 3 in a cheap Boston hotel room. Mrs. Garment, who wrote scripts for ABC'S mystery drama The Edge of Night, had been under treatment for depression for eight weeks in a Manhattan psychiatric clinic. She checked herself out to spend Thanksgiving with her family, then fled from home eleven days later and disappeared...
Born. To James Taylor, 29, and Carly Simon, 32, of pop fame: their second child and first son; in Manhattan. Name: Benjamin Simon. The birth was tape-recorded and preserved on Polaroid film...