Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college professor may walk out arm in arm with a welder?the trend in big cities is toward variety and segregation. There are bars for writers, artists, blacks, collegians, businessmen, middle-class women, "drag queens," transsexuals, male prostitutes and sadomasochists. At the Eagle, an s. and m. bar on Manhattan's Lower West Side, the uptown "Bloomingdale's crowd" is derided by a tightly packed throng of men in leather and Levi's. They come by subway or taxi rather than motorcycle, but they often wear motorcycle outfits, chains, handcuffs at the hips. Various colored handkerchiefs indicate different exotic sexual...
...homes away from home for travelers. The Club Baths chain has branches in 32 cites. Some baths have live entertainment: the Man's Country bathhouse in Chicago recently featured Sally Rand, and Bette Midler began her career and won her gay following by singing at the Continental Baths in Manhattan. The Continental is currently shunned by the In set of trendmakers, who patronize Everhart's. Most baths have TV rooms and serve food. Says gay Writer Arthur Bell: "It's like going into a womb?you can live there for days if you want to, completely oblivious to the outside...
...issues), has had a heady time in its first year. It has shot from a claimed circulation of 25,000 to 300,000 in its current issue. Its 20 youthful staffers-many of them refugees from straight publications like Good Housekeeping-work out of a large loft in Manhattan. Editorially, High Times has so far ranged all the way from the bizarre to the benumbed. One early issue ran a far-out, unverified, unsigned account of President John Kennedy "turning on" to alleviate his back troubles ("I Was Kennedy's Dealer"). Later issues have come down to more clear...
...case of the prime rate-may rise another .25 to .5 percentage points. Chicago Banker Beryl Sprinkel, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, foresees an increase "perhaps to 8½% by year's end." Meanwhile, Chase Econometrics, a subsidiary of the Chase Manhattan Bank, believes short-term rates could go another one to 1¼ percentage points higher. If the cost of money does indeed reach that level, it could dampen consumer and corporate spending, pinch off the fragile turn-around in housing and-at the very least-slow the economic recovery...
Beauty Room. The son of a cigar packer who had immigrated to the U.S. from Russia, Revson started out in the cosmetics business in Manhattan during the unglamorous Depression year of 1932. With $300 borrowed from loan sharks-at 24% interest-Charles and his older brother Joseph joined forces with a chemist named Charles Lachman, who was to become the l in Revlon. Working out of a rented room on the West Side, the three began making a creamy, opaque, nonstreak nail polish that Lachman had developed. Initially, they sold to beauty parlors, which were then enjoying a boom because...