Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They obviously overlooked something. Outside St. Patrick's last Wednesday night, the 6-ft. 5-in. Delgado stripped off his clothes, entered the soaring Manhattan landmark and began to strike worshipers. Police officer James McMann, 50, radioed for help before Delgado knocked him out with a wrought- iron prayer stand and then struck and killed usher John Winters, 77. Lunging at one of three newly arrived policemen, he was shot dead. Afterward, John Cardinal O'Connor recalled that he had touched and blessed Delgado when he noticed the man looked disturbed at Mass that morning. In a city where tens...
...people in suits get booed at ball parks," Giamatti says. He is hunched behind his battered desk in a modest, cluttered office at the National League's Manhattan headquarters on Park Avenue. "I was gratified by the response. I think it's healthy." But there were other suit-wearing guests at the Seaver celebration who . . . "O.K.," Giamatti concedes, "I am seen as the prime mover of the balk." And he goes on, somewhat wearily, to explain again that he is only one member of the rules committee, which decided last winter to make pitchers toe the line. Then he changes...
...community agitation, the Hollywood Museum is still only the promise of an empty lot next to Mann's Chinese Theater. The stars' footprints would have to lead east. Few guessed that they would lead to a working-class neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., just a short subway ride from Manhattan...
...change of heart came just in time for the beleaguered organization on Manhattan's East River. The U.S. is supposed to pay 25% of the U.N.'s general operating revenues. Since Washington began withholding funds, the organization has been dangerously strapped for cash. In July U.N. Secretary- General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with Ronald Reagan to explain that the U.N. could run out of money as early as November...
...Mary Anne Schwalbe, head of the upper school at Manhattan's Nightingale- Bamford, says, "We like our uniforms because we feel in a city like New York, where there is so much competition, there shouldn't be competition in clothes." But, she adds, "the girls are getting more creative with what they can do with the uniforms, but we also keep a supply of regulation garments on hand in case a girl stretches the rules too far." What happens if a student shows up in an outfit that nothing in the school closet will quiet down? "We send her home...