Word: manhattanization
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...Watergate, gas shortages and surpluses, the breakup of the Beatles and AT&T, the demise of miniskirts, the birth and death of the yuppie, Rocky I, II, III and IV. A changing world, you might say, and shake your graying head. But calm down. There is some stability. In Manhattan and São Paulo, audiences are still paying to see Oh! Calcutta! and watch eight actors and actresses take it off--take...
...route from Long Beach, Calif., to Battery Park in Manhattan has been plotted to cut a path within 100 miles of 65% of the nation's population. With the aid of a central computer in Wisconsin, applicants are being assigned precise places and given directions how to get there. The goal will be to hold hands for 15 minutes, singing We Are the World, America the Beautiful and Hands Across America. The proceeds will be disbursed to local housing, food and job programs by a private foundation aided by two advisory boards...
Imagine a financial scandal that forces the resignation of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker along with those of the heads of Citibank, Bank of America, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chase Manhattan and the First National Bank of Chicago. Such a massacre of top moneymen might seem farfetched in the U.S., but something very much like it is now going on in Israel...
...playing, he dines on Dover or gray sole flown in fresh that day. His wife, his housekeeper, his manager, his piano technician and a Steinway official all accompany him--as does, of course, his piano. The $40,000 concert grand, plucked by crane from the living room of his Manhattan townhouse, had its 12,000 parts cleaned and examined with a degree of care worthy of Air Force One. Its mahogany case was given coat after coat of high-gloss finish and hand-rubbed with fine steel wool, a laborious task that took 18 hours. It was then packed...
...York City, 1986. In their 14-room white stone townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side, purchased in 1947 for $30,000 and now worth a hundred times that amount, the Horowitzes live quietly, comfortably and just a little eccentrically. They eat out practically every night, chauffeured to one of a few favorite, mostly Italian restaurants, where Horowitz dines on pasta and the inevitable sole. After returning home, he relaxes by watching a triple feature of adventure and horror movies (The Terminator, Halloween, Raiders of the Lost Ark) on his videocassette recorder, then turns in about 4 a.m. and sleeps...