Word: manhattanization
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...dinner at 6:30 p.m. in East Brunswick, N.J., and called it a night at 8:20. The next day began with a 7 a.m. breakfast, an hourlong visit to a child-care center at 10 a.m. and a 20-min. lunch speech to the Conservative Party in Manhattan, after which he took off for home at 3 p.m. Let the weekend begin...
Carl, 40, who has attended moderation meetings in Manhattan for the past three years, believes he falls into that gray area. Though his family convinced him that he was drinking too much, he didn't think A.A. was right for him. "I'll always have to watch myself," he concedes, noting that he abides by the 14-drink weekly limit. He adds, "This program offers better tools than...
...show of 99 works by the French artist Jean-Simeon Chardin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, falls just 21 years after the last Chardin retrospective in America--which took place at the Cleveland Museum of Art and didn't reach Manhattan. Does the new show add much to our knowledge of Chardin? In a sense no, because not many fresh facts about him have surfaced in the past two decades. But in the sense that really matters, yes, and yes again. Any extended contact with Chardin is invigorating and marvelous...
...Devils, a Manhattan quintet, tears into Dinah--tears it up, rather, and tosses it like confetti over the giddy audience. Music historian Robert Armstrong defines the band's sound as a "unique blend of jazz, pop and hokum," and a few seconds into Dinah, the listener surrenders to the melange. The plucky violinist takes a solo, then a guy going infectiously nuts on tissue paper and comb. Finally it's steel guitarist King Bennie Nawahi's turn. He attacks the melody while caressing his instrument; his solo, like the best improvs, seems both wild and thoughtful. The full band convenes...
DIED. SIR MARCUS OLIPHANT, 98, nuclear physicist and a developer of the atom bomb; in Canberra, Australia. A native Australian, Oliphant discovered new forms of hydrogen and helium at Cambridge University's Cavendish Lab and later joined the Manhattan Project. Horrified by the bombs' effects, he called for peaceful uses of nuclear energy and was South Australian governor for five years...