Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That night we drove into Manhattan. I can assure you I never saw such joy in a big city. I can look back at one day when there was joy and happiness. I don't think you coulda got mugged in the subway that day," Nelson said...
...harder during those sweeps months, they would do better in the ratings and could make more money. But since the networks supply them with 22 hours of prime-time programming each week, it also occurred to them that the real effort had to come from their big brother in Manhattan. If a network is doing well, its affiliates also do well. If it is not, station owners become dyspeptic and surly and begin looking around for a bigger and better brother...
...tell bistro dropper, McPhee protected his sauces, revealing only that his special place is "more than five miles and less than a hundred from the triangle formed by La Grenouille, Lutece and Le Cygne," three of Manhattan's starriest caravansaries. He did not so much as hint where it might be. In New Jersey? Upstate New York? Pennsylvania? Connecticut? Staten Island? A mirage...
...that the bistro described in The New Yorker was the Red Fox Inn, in Milford, Pa. However, the legendary Otto had sold that hideaway last May and hoisted his toque over an old saloon in Shohola, Pa., that he rechristened The Bullhead. The inn is 90.5 miles from midtown Manhattan. The politician, it turned out, was president of the bank where the couple got their mortgage for the new place. The Times's Holmes and Watson dined there that night. Their reservation was in the name of McCarthy...
...Lieb's published remark about Lutèce's frozen turbot, that accusation stirred temblors in Manhattan stockpots. Lutece's Chef Andre Soltner indignantly produced fish market receipts to show one and all that his turbot was fresh. Lieb apologized, and the usually meticulous New Yorker, accused of publishing a canard, explained that to preserve Otto's anonymity, it had taken the exceptional step of allowing the author of the piece to do most of the checking...