Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes it seems that there is no escape from the world of soap opera. Eileen Fulton, who has played the wicked Lisa on As the World Turns for 16 years, was punched in front of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor by an irate fellow shopper who had confused the TV screen with real life. Said Fulton: "At first I thought she wanted my autograph...
...Gatsby's restaurant in Atlanta's American Motor Hotel, for example, Catering Director George Gold promotes his baked mako by putting 16-in. stuffed sharks on diners' tables, along with a card announcing JAWS: FOR A JAWFUL REVENGE. A fashionable Indian restaurant in Manhattan, Nirvana on Rooftop, draws attention to its shark curry by keeping three small sharks in a tank. It does not have to warn customers against squeezing the charmers...
That is what The Royal Family, one of the smash hits of 1927, is all about, and it is being given a grand, ebullient revival at Manhattan's Helen Hayes Theater. The Royal Family is graced with performances that are almost too good to be true. The settings (Oliver Smith) are right, the costumes (Ann Roth) are right, and Ellis Rabb's direction hits just the right pitch of flamboyant extraversion that constitutes the temper of the play...
...dodo waddled into the Parke-Bernet auction room. Drawings also are not a young man's hobby; they demand a degree of patient connoisseurship (tinged with philatelic mania) that only the old usually have. But late last month a remarkable disproof of the rule went on show at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library: a group of 115 works from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw...
...their last two visits to London, they packed Al bert Hall. Midway through a three- week American tour in November, they sold out Avery Fisher Hall at New York City's Lincoln Center, where young Irish-Americans danced jubilantly in the aisles. Last week they were back in Manhattan to highlight an all-Irish program at Carnegie Hall. They are also getting transatlantic exposure through their soundtrack performances for Stanley Kubrick's new film, Barry Lyndon (TIME cover, Dec. 15). After 15 years of semiprofessional status, the Chieftains seem to have arrived...