Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cosbys invest heavily in comfort and aesthetics. They own houses in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, as well as a 265-acre estate near Amherst, Mass. (their primary residence); 22 fine cars, including two Rolls- Royces and a 1937 Aston Martin; an extensive collection of black American art; antique English and Shaker furniture; four cellars of vintage wines; and a seven-passenger Mitsubishi jet (a second jet, a 13-passenger Gulfstream IV, is on order...
...Grooms' exuberance there is no doubt. Not for nothing does he favor the rowdy epithet ruckus in collectively naming his pieces: Ruckus Manhattan, Ruckus Rodeo. His tableaux fairly burst with riotous energy. In them, Jean Dubuffet's idea of making an art raw enough to stand up to the chaos of the street comes home to roost. Every Grooms surface pullulates with caricatural figures, each impacted with manic cartoony verve, rendered as layered plywood cutouts, as silhouettes, as stuffed dolls, as shadows. The detail is never hard to read, and one does not get lost in it, because Grooms sticks...
...Manhattan' s Whitney Museum, Red Grooms' exuberant, cartoony "ruckuses" are easy to like -- too easy, in fact...
...anniversary of Gershwin's death. George's father, Leatherworker Morris Gershovitz, thought Ira, the oldest of his four children, was the most talented -- until George, nearly two years younger, appropriated the keyboard with an amalgam of brashness and genius. The boy abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some free advice: "Stick to writing your own songs...
...West coasts. The average sale price of a home in Bradbury, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, has in the past year gone from $459,000 to $610,000, according to a survey by the nationwide broker network of RELO, a Chicago-based relocation service. In Greenwich, Conn., northeast of Manhattan, the average cost has skyrocketed incredibly, from $467,500 to $1.2 million since the summer of 1986. Prices are not rising that fast in heartland suburbs, but almost every region of the U.S. has a strong luxury-housing market, with the exception of depressed oil-patch states like Texas...