Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performances on the four-city circuit (New York, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles) are practically sold out. At the Metropolitan Opera House the crowds have patiently worked their way through strict security checks. Arguments among balletomanes about whether the company lives up to its legend are steamier than Manhattan sidewalks. Bolshoi means big, and this bravura ensemble virtually defines...
...this fall. Instead of rare Renoirs, Turners and Manets, they will behold photos and descriptions of shopping malls, office buildings and hotels worth at least $5 million apiece. In November the London-based art auction house plans to team up for the first time with Cushman & Wakefield, a giant Manhattan realty firm, to put some $100 million worth of prime U.S. commercial real estate on Christie's Park Avenue auction block...
That same night last week, another Manhattan audience gathered for a more poignant celebration. Charles Ludlam, the wondrous star-playwright-designer- director of Greenwich Village's Ridiculous Theatrical Company, had succumbed to AIDS in May, at 44. Now 1,000 of his admirers crammed into the Second Avenue Theater to watch excerpts from his ebullient farces and to pay tribute to the artist whom Playwright William M. Hoffman called "the funniest man in America." Madeline Kahn recalled her college days with Ludlam. Joseph Papp and Geraldine Fitzgerald spoke of his prodigious energy. Finally, Everett Quinton -- Ludlam's colleague...
...slosh mugs. Others balance checkbooks, do crossword puzzles and dictate letters and grocery lists into pocket-size tape recorders. Hot summer weekends offer an opportunity for passengers to take partial charge of the car. Inching along to the approach to the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and Manhattan, occupants of cars without air conditioning who face delays of more than an hour hold the doors open for a little circulation...
According to Manhattan Psychiatrist T.B. Karasu, motorists can be divided into two categories: adaptives, those who accept things as they are and understand that they cannot be in control of all situations, and nonadaptives. The nonadaptives, says Karasu, "blow their horns and irritate everybody else as well as themselves. Noise is an external and excessive stimulus that increases rather than decreases tension. When you yell or are yelled at, your body releases more adrenaline, your blood vessels constrict, your pressure ! rises, and you get headaches. You are still wound up three or four hours later." Karasu points out that nonadaptive...