Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advisers who link disciples of the movement to a spiritual core of the universe. "I had recently returned from nearly six years in London," she says. "And I wondered what these people had to do with the English Channel." But Cronin was soon immersed in sessions with a jolly Manhattan channeler named Bob Johnson, who served as her conduit for a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with beings on the stars of Alpha Centauri...
Another practitioner is a slight, intelligent, no-nonsense woman of 63, who treats ailments as varied as cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis in a cluttered studio apartment in Manhattan. A onetime bacteriologist, she had no psychic experiences until after the death of her husband, when she began hearing voices and seeing visions and "thought I was losing my mind." When she began to study these phenomena, she became convinced that unseen doctors were working through her. "I am not a mystical person," she says, "but I have learned to accept many, many things. I know my doctors are geniuses...
...parents)) occasionally at night and on weekends, and I thought every child in New York lived that way." Sondheim's father was a manufacturer of medium-price dresses, and his mother was the firm's designer. "We lived very nicely," he recalls, "on Central Park West in Manhattan, but at the back of the building. After my father remarried, he moved to Fifth Avenue, still at the back of the building. From him I get my tendency to pessimism. He always looked at the black side, imagined the worst that could happen. Eventually my stepmother and I forced...
Critics accuse Koch of giving away the government to political bosses and giving away Manhattan to developers. Koch has coddled builders with tax breaks while their towering, ego-driven projects block out the sun, overload already groaning services and paralyze traffic. Celebrities like Jacqueline Onassis, Henry Kissinger and Paul Newman have joined hundreds of West Side residents in protests against skyscrapers proposed by Builders Donald Trump and Mortimer Zuckerman. Bowing to public pressure, Zuckerman has offered to scale down his 68-story tower, which would cast shadows across Central Park. NBC has backed away from Trump's proposed Television City...
Astronomical real estate costs have already led to an exodus from Manhattan by the "back offices" of financial-service companies, as well as some corporation headquarters. So many companies have been lured across the Hudson to New Jersey that Koch, with characteristic moxie, posed for an ad showing him sealing off the Lincoln Tunnel. "The rats are leaving," he growled recently, unwittingly casting his city in the role of sinking ship...