Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just after dusk, a driver stares across sulfurous marshes, the burn-off fires of oil refineries flickering like purgatory. Then all at once, in the distance, he sees the city, a kind of Oz, its lighted crystal buildings like piled diamonds. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that looking at Manhattan from afar was always to behold it "in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world...
...delegates' hotels are scattered up and down Manhattan, ranging from the Waldorf Astoria at $47 to $66 a night for a double, to the Abbey Victoria at $30 to $33. Early on in the primary season, Carter's forces had been booked into the City Squire Inn. When Carter became the assured winner, his workers demanded-and got-250 rooms in the much larger Americana, a flashy plastic version of Miami Beach set down on Seventh Avenue. Carter and Wife Rosalynn were assigned a five-room suite with a canopied bed on the 21st floor...
...least it is a halfway house between the rest of the world and the U.S. In another perspective, New York is the most uniquely American of U.S. cities, precisely because of its incredible diversity. It is one of the oldest American cities-dating to 1626, when Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Indians and established the first permanent settlement. But it is still a city of aliens-spiritual, cultural and legal...
...lawyer, who won prominence in 1931 by joining the defense team that waged a long, ultimately successful fight to save the lives of the nine black defendants in the landmark Scottsboro case, which established that blacks could no longer be excluded from juries; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan...
Some shows have such vividly defined personalities that they defy any flaws in production. Pal Joey is that kind of show. This revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square/Joseph E. Levine Theater certainly has its flaws; yet it remains an irresistible delight with enormous verve, raffish insouciance and a musk of cynicism that somehow has the allure of perfume...