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...Back in Manhattan, Wanda looks at her airplane ticket. "Look at this, will you?" she says to her husband. "It cost $150. My father told me government functions are bad theater. Too many people in government are stunks...
...expanded almost overnight. The Kirov, for example, had already been scheduled to perform at Vancouver's Expo 86 this month. When the good news arrived from Geneva, the company was able to add Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Wolf Trap in Virginia to its schedule. Unfortunately, the appropriate houses in Manhattan--dance capital of the world--were unavailable on such short notice, and New York dance lovers will have to put on their traveling shoes to see a company that helped define classical ballet. Philadelphians are unfortunate too in that they will see the Kirov in the cavernous Mann Music Center...
...Morrisons dig water tunnels in the Bronx. Owney's granduncle Jack stays above ground to work as a messenger for an influential Irish lawyer. One of Jack's jobs is to deliver expense money to William Butler Yeats, then staying at the attorney's (would you believe?) 30-room Manhattan apartment. Jack has sticky fingers; he usually lightens the cash envelope, and when his boss dies, Morrison and his sister-in-law steal a Yeats manuscript from the apartment, bypassing a stack of paintings by Renoir. Says Emily Morrison: "Anything Irish got to be better." Her son Jimmy...
...five times a day. The sweater tossed over the shoulders goes with the chore." There is a salute to the Delahanty Institute, which prepared generations of young men for the police- and fire-department exams, and a bitterly funny scene in which two sandhogs find themselves in a midtown Manhattan bar filled with three-piece suits and attaché cases...
Stopping at the employee cafeteria for a morning cup of coffee, staffers at ABC's midtown Manhattan headquarters are apt to find an unlikely table mate these days: the big boss. Unlike his predecessors, new ABC President John Sias often mingles with the troops at breakfast rather than repairing to the 40th-floor executive dining room. "It's not good to use all the executive perks and ask others to cut back," says Sias, 59, a former paratrooper known for his practical jokes and the Captain Marvel T shirts he sometimes wears under his suit and tie. "It's important...