Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Immediately after investigating the recent outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at Indiana University, the indefatigable detectives of the U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta had to respond to yet another alarm. The mysterious malady had erupted in Manhattan's crowded garment district. There, within a few city blocks, at least 75,000 men and women are jampacked by day, their indoor working conditions made bearable only by generous use of air conditioning...
When New York City hospitals began suspecting Legionnaires' disease as the cause of the unusual type of pneumonia from which six garment-district patients were suffering, they sent blood samples first to the CDC laboratory in Manhattan for analysis and then to Atlanta. The CDC confirmed the diagnosis. By then two victims had died, both deliverymen, who trundle racks loaded with dresses through traffic-choked streets. Investigators looking for clues to the source of the outbreak instantly checked to see if the two worked for the same shop; they did not, but were employed on the same block...
...Nuance, focus and miniaturized drama are the order of the evening. Piety aside, the broader and deeper emotions are not often invoked. The performance unavoidably remains a bit rarefied, which is no doubt why it is booked for a three-week run in the small (249 seats) theater of Manhattan Marymount College. After a similarly modest beginning in London, however, it escalated into one of last spring's solid West End hits. McCowen is scheduled for a three-month tour of the U.S., including another visit to New York and culminating in a return to London...
...taste. After a generous helping of crabes farcis, he simply notes that "chefs on Martinique tend to use as stuffing what I suspect a crab would have chosen to stuff himself with if only he had been given the opportunity." He has high praise for the cooking of a Manhattan neighbor and adds: "Alice claims that when we are walking there for dinner she is often forced to grab me by the jacket two or three times to keep me from breaking into a steady, uncharacteristic trot...
...architecture has been enhanced with major exhibitions in London, Venice and the U.S. The most notable show opens this week in the spectacular new East Building of Washington's National Gallery. The largest collection of Piranesi's relatively rare drawings went on display last week at Manhattan's Morgan Library. The Morgan is also publishing a catalogue that will illustrate its entire Piranesi holdings...