Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snort cocaine is to make a statement. It is like flying to Paris for breakfast." Those who have been arrested for possessing it include Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richard, New York Rangers Forward Don Murdoch, TV Star Louise Lasser, Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and one of the owners of Manhattan's top discotheque, Studio 54, where a flashing light tableau shows the man in the moon sniffing coke from a spoon...
Both men are workaholics. Both are also members of the "Regency Mafia" group of businessmen, bankers and politicians who breakfast most mornings at Manhattan's Regency Hotel, making deals and complaining about the price of their orange juice ($1.60). A takeover that involves much litigation can run up six-and sometimes seven-figure fees. In addition, Flom is on retainer to numerous corporations that part with $50,000 annually just to keep him from coming at them in a raid; Lipton has been bond counsel to the city of New York...
Playwright Pomerance has been scrupulously conscientious about the facts. Even so, The Elephant Man is more than docudrama. It is lofted on poetic wings and nests in the human heart. The production, in the off-Broadway Theater of St. Peter's Church (in Manhattan's Citicorp Building), is done with impeccable taste and graced with skilled key performances that equal or surpass anything to be seen at present in the New York theater. Displaying no cosmetically applied malignancies, Philip Anglim 's Merrick is like some sort of simple, twisted saint...
...November 1978. One of the best Harvard cross-country teams in memory loses the Heptagonals on an unseasonably warm day in uptown Manhattan when Thad McNulty--the potential fifth Harvard finisher--collapses from exhaustion 100 yards from the finish...
...that puts some popular areas of the city off-limits. The public does not support clean-up efforts, apparently feeling that a patrolman's time might be better spent tracking down muggers than peddlers. Moreover, peddling is part of the city's tradition. At least one prominent Manhattan department store family, in fact, can trace its lineage back to a pushcart peddler...