Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea is hardly new. The origins of matchmaking go back to antiquity, springing from the custom, once common in Europe and the Orient, of arranged marriages. Even today in the U.S. the Old World custom persists: Manhattan marriage broker Dan Field says he is often consulted by parents who want him to arrange a match for their children. But what is becoming more common in the U.S. is the gold-card matchmaker for the affluent among those 43 million unmarried Americans between 18 and 44. "Across America," says San Francisco matchmaker Barbara Tackett, "there are people making...
WAITING FOR GODOT. Samuel Beckett takes a backseat to inspired if intrusive clowning by Robin Williams and Steve Martin in a sold-out run at Manhattan's Lincoln Center...
ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION. In John Patrick Shanley's Little Italy, all the women are worldly-wise, and all the men are moonstruck. John Turturro leads the cast of this chocolate-heart comedy at the Manhattan Theater Club...
...fluffy omelets and supple floating islands, the most important question about these eggs is: How do they taste? To find out, TIME obtained two dozen large, grade AA Rosemary Farm eggs from a Hughes market in Los Angeles, and I compared them with large, grade AA eggs purchased in Manhattan. On inspection, the California specimens looked a bit larger and had rougher shells with uneven calcium deposits, while the New York shells were perfectly smooth. New York yolks were also a brighter shade of yellow...
...cluster of high- profile cases turns Manhattan courtrooms into SRO theaters. The line forms early to see former beauty queen Bess Myerson or accused child murderer Joel Steinberg...