Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shattered when Kennedy was killed, Sorensen stayed in virtual isolation for a year while he wrote his 758-page book on those brief years of glory, Kennedy. Then he joined a top New York law firm, which gave him a six-figure income. He lives in a Manhattan apartment with his third wife Gillian and their young daughter; he has two sons from his first marriage. In 1970 he made his one try for elective office by running in the Democratic Senate primary; badly beaten, he did not make another attempt. He was too stonefaced, it was said, to excite...
...body, Brigitte Bardot, 42, is now into fashion. BB has lent her approval-and signature in shocking pink and black-to a spring collection of dresses, blouses, shirts and short shorts created by her friend, Designer Arlette Nastat. The threads, which go on sale next month in stores in Manhattan and Dallas, are clingy, transparent and décolleté. The market for the collection, however, may be limited. The former sex kitten sees potential customers as "women who have my allure, my look...
...metaphor for public sorrow. In a long and wrenching monologue, he tries to link the childless couple's plight to the nightmare horrors of Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, Rudkin is a dramatist who welds theater to life as too few playwrights tend to do. With this production the Manhattan Theater Club reconfirms its status as an oasis of fresh drama under the venturesome leader ship of its artistic director, Lynne Meadow. She has been joined in this instance by Joseph Papp and his New York Shakespeare Festival in an occasion that does honor to them both...
Died. Russel Wright, 72, a designer who created simple, elegant furniture and accessories for American homes; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though he had little formal training, Wright helped to revolutionize the appearance of everyday household items, from accordions to flatware. He was noted for popularizing the use of blond wood in home furnishing and also for designing plastic dinnerware that sold by the millions. Wright put handgrips on his colorful dinner plates "to keep thumbs out of the food...
...same time, Japan has a deep-seated psychological aversion to importing. Many European imports are considered luxurious indulgences, and are priced accordingly. A fifth of Johnny Walker Black can cost $25.50 (v. $11.90 in Manhattan); imported Italian shoes for men easily run to $110. Common Market members also charge that their efforts to sell to Japan are hamstrung by nontariff barriers to trade. For example, European auto manufacturers (who export a mere 26,000 cars to Japan, v. the 400,000 the Japanese ship to the Nine) complain about a cumbersome maze of customs procedures, pollution and safey requirements...