Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been married for longer than 15 minutes knows that there are problems. But this picture of pervasive and profound despair and alienation was not at all what I saw." Scarf considers certain figures, including the 70% rate of infidelity, highly improbable: "Maybe she can find that in parts of Manhattan, but I wonder about Iowa...
Welcome to the Dreamwork Movement. Across the nation, growing numbers of Americans are keeping dream diaries, recording their visions on paper, tape and computer disc. Many are joining dream-sharing groups, ranging from weekly home gatherings of a few friends on Manhattan's Upper West Side to twice- monthly meetings of the Metro D.C. Dream Community, a 150-member network. Others are visiting dream consultants. At the San Francisco Dream Center, run by two duennas of the movement, Psychologist Gayle Delaney and Psychiatrist Loma Flowers, a private 50-minute session costs $90, and a 90-minute group meeting...
...stark fantasy goes like this: New York City is two different, alien worlds: Manhattan and the "outer boroughs." Manhattan, America's hub of service and information, is an island where the rich get richer and the poor serve lunch. Each day the sunrise set emerges from its Manhattan high-rises, takes a limo to the office and sits down to run the computer age. At the same hour, folks come in from Brooklyn or Queens to play the worker-bee roles of secretaries, cab drivers, souvlaki vendors and cops. After work they return home in underground cattle cars. The subway...
...this week's beyond-chic movie thriller -- a wealthy young woman named Claire Gregory (Mimi Rogers) may be witness to a murder. And be tabbed and stalked by the killer. And be protected by Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger), a Queens policeman who knows no more of haut-monde Manhattan then he may have seen on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous...
...first Mike lounges warily in Claire's palatial digs, tossing newspaper wads into the sconces. Mike considers her with the outsider's mixture of scorn and awe. But why should he consider her at all? He is at ease in the world outside Manhattan; he has a loving wife (Lorraine Bracco) and a fine young son. For that matter, why should Claire think of Mike as anything but a nuisance or a clown? He shadows her everywhere, mangles the language and dresses like a used-car salesman at Sunday Mass. Yet she responds to his strength. Though...