Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chutzpah, it must be added, also applies to the people who planned Leverett's outrageous ticket prices and show schedule. Inflation may be rampant, but charging $3 for a House show is absurd and almost menacing--sort of like Chase Manhattan raising the prime lending rate to 15 per cent overnight. And the schedule, which calls for two shows on one night for each of the three-week run, is almost as bad as asking a pitcher to start both ends of a doubleheader. The show runs a whopping two hours and forty-five minutes, and asking any cast...
Having consolidated their position in the suburbs, the chains are now tackling the big cities. Walden already has three stores in New York City and is planning to open more. Next month Dalton is opening one of the nation's largest bookstores, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. It will carry 100,000 titles and have ten departments offering 125 categories of books. The religious and health sections will have parquet floors for a feeling of stability. The technology section will be paneled in walnut, and the young readers' section will be colored a bright Star Wars blue...
...York City area, where an estimated one-third of U.S. hardcover books are sold. The discounters commonly cut prices 20% to 35% on bestsellers. The battle has already forced Laurel Book Center, a small chain, out of business. McGraw-Hill at times has posted a barker outside its Manhattan store to attract customers by offering a daily giveaway of technical books. Doubleday has refurbished and expanded its main Fifth Avenue store and is relying more and more on cut-rate leftovers-so-called remainders. Barnes & Noble's huge New York stores have flourished by offering a mountainous selection...
...Dante. Although she is happily married, Natalie is immediately attracted to her professor's radiance of mind. He pursues her, she capitulates only too willingly, and they begin a year-long series of passionate, clandestine meetings. In her first novel, Ellen Schwamm takes this conventional plot and Manhattan milieu and creates a fresh and elegant narrative...
Jerome Charyn exerts energies that could make a turbine envious. At 41 he has published his twelfth novel, an adrenal tour of Manhattan, Dublin and parts unknown. The title character is a grief-racked, unshaven drifter who caroms around in search of trouble. The quest is professional: Isaac Sidel is first deputy police commissioner, a plainclothesman eaten by dreams and ravaged by a tape worm fastened to his entrails...