Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years Brant, who teaches at Bennington College in Vermont, has sought wider spaces for his music than concert halls afford by going outdoors. In 1972 his The Immortal Conflict positioned instrumental groups on various balconies and plazas at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Traffic noise and a thunderstorm made the results "ludicrous," Brant admits. Undaunted, he merely drew the moral that any bold experimenter would have. "The thunderclap," he says, "showed me the scale that sound would have to be on to be heard...
...thought it was time for me to tell the truth." That's what we thought we were getting all along from Sophia Loren, of course, but now she has told all to Writer A.E. Hotchner in Sophia: Living and Loving (Morrow; $9.95). Or nearly all. In Manhattan last week, at the beginning of a six-city U.S. promotion tour, Sophia shrugged off reports that Peter Sellers, who had starred with her in The Millionairess, was upset about not being cited as one of her loves. "I only wrote about things that were important to me," she replied, scarcely batting...
Some successful boat people are also work-aboards. New Yorker Harvey Abramson, 48, a bright-eyed, bearded designer of medical equipment, maintains an office in midtown Manhattan that he has not visited for a year; he does all his work in the fo'c'sle of his 43-ft. cabin cruiser, which is berthed in a boat basin on the Hudson River at Manhattan's 79th Street. He keeps in touch with secretary and clients by onboard phone. Says he: "My therapy is tinkering. On a boat there's always something to do." There...
...respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
...free-for-all begins when her husband William, an overpaid Manhattan flack, is fired. A former boss offers Sara an assistant editor's job on a supermarket magazine. Before long the new employee is made privy to one of life's worst-kept secrets: it is more amusing to work in an office than to keep house. Not long after that, she graduates to a bigger secret: power is fun, particularly if you've never had any. Morning after morning, William watches his wife lacquer her face, pull on her high-style boots and merrily walk...