Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produce a big book that has impressed some pretty influential folks. Yale professor Harold Bloom calls Brodkey "unparalleled in American prose fiction since the death of William Faulkner." Susan Sontag says Brodkey is "going for real stakes. I read every word he writes." The author, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, has sometimes been willing to join the chorus of his admirers: "It's dangerous to be as good a writer...
There are 8 million stories in the Naked City -- which is twelve stories too many. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling requiring a New York City developer to tear down the top dozen floors of a new 31-story condominium on Manhattan's East Side. The concrete superstructure for all 31 floors was in place in 1986 when the city found that the building violated zoning laws and ordered it cut down to size. The developer, Parkview Associates, kept working on the building and went to court, arguing that there ( had been an error...
From Levittown, Dukakis went to midtown Manhattan to march in the annual Columbus Day parade...
...some U.S. urban areas, older parents are becoming the norm. Author Martha Fay, 41, mother of a five-year-old daughter, says of her West Side Manhattan neighborhood, "Some of the mothers look so old they don't appear biologically capable of having had these children. We have 50-year-old men teaching soccer teams." For both sexes, the benefits of postponing kids are greater financial security and well-established careers. What is more, there is no question that late children are wanted -- often badly wanted. Says Susan Fillin-Yeh, 45, an art historian at Yale and mother...
That emotional gap can widen during a child's teens, when older parents are in their late 50s or early 60s. Janet Spencer King, 46, a Manhattan mother who had her first child nine years ago, foresees an "empathy gap" when her children hit their teens. "As you get older, you get secure and comfortable with who you are," she says. "You don't waste energy, you are moving ahead. You can become dismissive of people who are different. Meanwhile, adolescents have to experience all the different feelings in order to grow." Older parents can put additional pressure on their...