Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jose Mercury News and Lindsey Gruson of the New York Times, who teamed up for the piece, have apparently found the association rewarding. Monkey on a Stick is their expanded, though not necessarily deepened, account of the Hindu religious movement that started in 1965 as a storefront attraction in Manhattan's East Village...
...offer pastries because that raises the check and, therefore, the tip that is a percentage of the total," observes Dieter Schorner, the gifted pastry chef whose velvety chocolate cake and supple, sugar-glazed creme brulee have caused many a dieter's downfall at such restaurants as Le Cirque in Manhattan and Potomac in Washington...
...raising the temptation factor by presenting their delectables on a rolling cart or a table strategically placed near the entrance. "Some customers reserve their choices before ordering dinner because they know we run out of certain things," says Sam Rubin, owner of the seafood restaurant John Clancy's in Manhattan, where individual lemon meringue tarts ($6) and dense, moist chocolate velvet cake ($6) are among the first to go. Another trend: dessert samplers, with an assortment of up to seven different confections. Joyce Goldstein, chef-owner of San Francisco's Square One, describes her $6.50 version as "a ritual platter...
...films show Lange playing by these implicit rules while bending them to suit. In Far North, she is Kate, a Manhattan careerist come home to Minnesota. Kate is a little addled, but less so than most of her relatives, and she possesses a loyalty to the whims of her dotty dad that is fierce enough to pass for independence. In Everybody's All-American she is Babs Rogers Grey, Louisiana U.'s Magnolia Queen of 1956, who blossoms into a principled businesswoman even as her marriage to a college football star withers like a corsage she forgot to press into...
...Manhattan a show illuminates the art of Australia' s Aborigines, who evoke their Dreamings, or spirit ancestors, in works of striking beauty...