Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember the last time the LIRR workers struck, in the late '70s. Everybody drove their cars part of the way into the city, parked and then walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan. Sales of walking shoes skyrocketed. It was like a mass pilgrimage to Yuppie Mecca...
Housed in a cramped Manhattan loft and operating with more conviction than cash (the budget is $10,000 a week -- minuscule compared with the money available to most network shows), South Africa Now presents a lively look at a tumultuous region. Twelve full- and part-time staffers and a host of volunteers put together programs of spot news, background reports and cultural features. The result is a show that is spunky and creative, though uneven in quality. Interviews sometimes drag on, and occasionally the picture and sound quality are poor...
Older people now do the things in ads that they do in real life: work, play tennis, fall in love, buy new cars. "They've rejoined the American family that advertisers show us," says Frankie Cadwell, president of Cadwell Davis Partners, a Manhattan ad agency. The bride in a commercial for New York Telephone, for example, is about 60. All of the discreetly nude models in ads for Lear's, a magazine for older women, are over...
...musical called The Straw Hat Revue opened at Manhattan's Ambassador Theater. The show, which cost $8,000 to put on Broadway, featured such future stars as Danny Kaye, Imogene Coca, Alfred Drake and a young dancer named Jerome Robbins. This week -- 50 years later and four blocks south, at the Imperial Theater -- Broadway welcomes another revue, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, with another cast of young hopefuls. But everything else about this show is bigger, riskier and very late '80s. For one thing, its co-sponsor is a Japanese liquor firm. For another, it carries an all-time-high ticket price...
While Sock Shop buys most of its wares from manufacturers, the four-store Sock Express chain in Manhattan has its own factory. Company founder Barton Weiss favors socks with rhinestones, zippers and buttons, all of which would be difficult for a mass manufacturer to produce. Weiss gets around the problem by employing 28 skilled costume builders to cut fabrics and put his socks + together. "I can have an idea tonight and have it in the stores tomorrow," he boasts. Growing curbside competition is proving a spur to innovation. One of the most popular styles in California is an anklet adorned...