Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like thrift shop purchases within a few steamy hours. One of the hottest-or coolest -fabrics around is Indian gauze, dyed with eggplant, saffron, cucumber and other natural substances, maybe even curry powder. Indian fabrics were among the highlights of a huge sales promotion of Indian merchandise mounted by Manhattan's Bloomingdale's last April. The material is so popular in New England that the Rhode Island-based, 80-store Touraine chain expects to sell 50,000 Indian gauze garments this season and regularly dispatches a buyer to the subcontinent to snare supplies...
...recent trend toward self-liberation in fashion. "People today are willing to be comfortable, both physically and socially," says David Tessler, owner of San Francisco's City Island Dry Goods Co. boutique. "They have no use for constraints or formality." Fashion Savant Geraldine Stutz, president of Manhattan's Henri Bendel, declares not only that "the wrinkle is the apogee of casual dressing" but also that it is "the ultimate declaration of independence, the last statement of revolt against fashion dictatorship...
That is the way he wants it. Despite worldwide fame (his books have been translated into nearly 60 languages), Singer remains a uniquely accessible celebrity. The phone rings constantly. Friends, fans and total strangers turn up at the roomy West Side Manhattan apartment that he shares with Alma, his wife for 38 years. They find a slightly stooped, nearly bald host with fine, parchment-like skin and strikingly pale blue eyes. He looks frail until he talks or moves, scuttling be tween sofa, telephone and front door with the vitality of a chipmunk...
...Hoffa, Justice Department officials picked up a tip that Big Sal Sinno, who was then living in Wisconsin, might be willing to implicate Provenzano in the murder of Castellito. Investigators also tried to induce Briguglio to turn state's evidence; he was shot to death last March in Manhattan. But the FBI guarded Sinno carefully, and last week, as police marksmen patrolled the courthouse, he was the prosecution's star witness...
Nature certainly designed women better than men for sport in one basic way. "A man's scrotum is much more vulnerable than a woman's ovaries," says Dr. John Marshall, director of sports medicine at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery and the trainer for Billie Jean King. "A woman's ovaries sit inside a great big sac of fluid-beautifully protected." A woman's breasts are also not easily damaged. Scotching an old myth, Marshall says: "There's no evidence that trauma to the breasts is a precursor of cancer...