Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the number of authors who can deliver blockbusters is limited, literary agents have amassed unprecedented clout. One of the most powerful is Manhattan's Morton Janklow, whose literary agency represents such hugely commercial writers as Sidney Sheldon and Jackie Collins. Janklow boasts that since 1981, when the Hearst Corp. bought the publishing house of William Morrow for $25 million, he has closed three deals with individual authors that were each in excess of that amount. Naturally, the agents are fanning the bidding frenzy. Says Evans: "It used to be you would see if there was substance to a book...
...Robert Stone works in a luxury corporate office in Manhattan," Zinn said. "He doesn't have to look into the eyes of coal miners who have black lung disease because their health benefits have been cut off by his company. If he isn't going to come down to the coal fields, we'll come up here...
...stuff. The dancers, dressed in outrageous outfits, wave their hands languorously in time with the music, suck in their cheeks, stare icily into space and strut as if they were high-fashion models on the runways. Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing...
Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing, a scene that began in Harlem...
...long expansion of the 1980s. Instead of bemoaning the big leap in the number of unsuccessful job seekers, the experts cheered it as a sign of a slowdown that lessens the chance of a new burst of inflation. "No matter how bad the news," observes Pierre Rinfret, a Manhattan-based economic consultant, "the market will find something good in it." Just as the market, which seems to obey none of the usual rules, almost always manages to find something bad in the very best of news...