Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventyish, prima ballerina of the 1920s and '30s, whose supple, fluid movements enchanted audiences of the Vienna State Ballet until she began a second career that included musicals with the Astaires and roles in such movies as The Good Earth and The Garden of Allah; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...after his assignation, Yuri receives a frightening telephone call from the Ministry of Culture. He is to attend a writers' conference in New York for the purpose of delivering a secret message, contained in a poem written for him by a KGB computer, to some unnamed mole in Manhattan...
...people into his mouth like uppers and downers but, in a curious way, human. He falls for a winsome blonde, saves her from a Tyrannosaurus and is brought to the U.S. in pain and chains. Army planes finally cut him down as he makes a last brave stand atop Manhattan's Empire State Building...
Over at Paramount, De Laurentiis is brooding about Kong in a different way. He is building a miniature Manhattan to be crushed by Kong's vast paws. Paramount's Kong is to be destroyed '70s-style with nuclear-tipped rockets, no doubt as he chews on the antenna atop the World Trade Center...
...retail spectrum: "We are having the best Christmas we have ever had," said Nicola Minelli, manager of a jampacked Gucci branch in Beverly Hills. Minelli was hard pressed to meet the demand for $6,000 "classic" handbags (lizard with 18-carat gold fittings and chain). At Manhattan's Tiffany & Co. consumers snatched up nine $3,800 calculator watches and about 2% miles of "diamonds by the yard." Chairman Walter Hoving reported a 38% sales leap over December...