Word: manhattan
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...expertise in geology that he began cultivating years ago as a student at the Bronx High School of Science. A denizen of New York City's high-rises, he finds the whole subject of earthquakes discomforting as well as fascinating. But New York, he notes, has its advantages. "Manhattan has a lot of problems," Golden explains, "but very few faults." San Francisco Correspondent John Austin feels considerably queasier. Small wonder, considering that his talks with earthquake researchers and civic defense officials, and perusal of an Office of Emergency Preparedness study, form the basis of the story...
According to the Women's College Coalition, a Washington-based group representing half the nation's 140 women's colleges, enrollment is up 3% over last year. More significant, applications are up a healthy 7%. At some schools, among them Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, Chatham College in Pittsburgh and St. Joseph College in West Hartford, Conn., applications are nearly 50% ahead of last year...
...theological market." But those who espouse it so far do not seem to be faddists, and they do not expect instant change. If anything, liberation theology may well be just too demanding to become a fad. Said one Detroit participant, Beverly Harrison, a professor of social ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "The liberal in me wants a different world, but the liberal in me also wants that world without changing myself, and without pain." This common, human contradiction, as much as some oppressive system, may be the most difficult challenge facing liberation theology, north or south...
Balmy Fictions. Much of Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is given over to similarly novel footage: home movies of F.D.R. horsing around with his family during a swimming party; the Hindenburg, with a swastika painted on its tail, floating peacefully between the skyscrapers of Manhattan; Los Angeles, dawdling about growing, still a transposed prairie town set down in the middle of an antic oasis. There are also, intercut with fact, many of the best and balmiest fictions of the time: James Cagney, ever brash and streetwise, pushing mugs around; King Kong poking his head up through the el tracks...
...like a samba, only sexier, and an Afro-Latino style known as the Moving Hustle in Los Angeles and the Latin Hustle in New York. The steps are not easy to pick up, and dance studios report booming business. "It's an epidemic," says Cathleen Crawford, manager of Manhattan's Dale Dance Studio, where bookings have tripled in the past three months and the under-30s have appeared for the first time. In the past, Crawford adds, "people just called and said they wanted to learn to dance. Now they know what they want. Everybody wants to learn...