Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the hookers a 25-year-old Radcliffe graduate on the way home from the movies and a church worker counseling prostitutes. Meanwhile, pimps, the most noxious corner of the prostitution triangle, often go untouched. Convicting them is difficult because prostitutes are frequently afraid to testify against them. The Manhattan district attorney's office will use most of $200,000 it just received from the state for combating pimps to change the prostitutes' minds and lives with protection and "travel home" money...
That is the forecast of TIME'S Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan for their quarterly assessment of the outlook, and in the context of recent grim economic tidings, it is rather reassuring. Last week, for example, the Commerce Department reported that the annual rate of inflation in the second quarter was 11%, even worse than first estimated. President Carter huddled with his economic advisers to plan a Stage Two anti-inflation program and warned in a speech to the steelworkers that it will be "tough" and require "some sacrifice from all." The Federal Reserve made some additional moves...
Janus discovered a generation gap among the comedians. Most who reached prominence before the 1950s grew up in large, Yiddish-speaking immigrant families in Brooklyn or on Manhattan's Lower East Side. About 80% came from kosher homes and 90% later anglicized their names. Younger comedians are better educated, have less contact with Jewish ritual and are more likely to break away from traditional Jewish humor to deliver social or political messages in their acts. Says Janus: "The older ones changed their names and relieved their tensions with booze. The younger ones lie about their age and dabble with pills...
Except for a 7,500-word excerpt from Mario Puzo's new novel, Fools Die, the new 140-page LIFE is pictures, pictures, pictures, most of them in color: of family reunions, the rugged beauty of Antarctica, Frisbee-fetching dogs, the filming of The Wiz, Jackie Onassis in the Manhattan publishing-house office she once occupied, the Shah of Iran in his fortified Caspian Sea retreat, Brooke Shields in a skimpy leotard, Henry Fonda in a Boy Scout uniform, Pope John Paul I in the Vatican, and hot-air balloons over Iowa. Conspicuously absent are the kind of late-breaking...
Last week, almost exactly two thousand years later, the temple so built stood beneath a gleaming, towering, glassy pavilion newly erected at the north end of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art overlooking Central Park. Dendur's ancient stones glow softly orange as it stands on a wide granite platform skirted by a moat of lapping water, designed to evoke its old site on the west bank of the Nile. Even the rocky escarpment against which it stood has been simulated. The huge skylight and glass north wall set off its looming 26-ft.-high gateway and the squat bulk...