Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenario only Cronenberg could dream up. In fact, the story comes from the novel Twins, by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which in turn was based on the case history of Drs. Cyril and Stewart Marcus, a pair of respected gynecologists who in 1975 were found dead in a Manhattan apartment. From these threads Cronenberg has spun a fantasia of split personality and the vulnerable male ego. The film's identical twins, Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Jeremy Irons), are Toronto doctors with a reputation for radical technique and a comforting bedside manner...
Doty, an expert on the social and ethical issues of nuclear war who worked on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb, was not available for comment...
...problem? Polly's women friends don't think so. Most of them are solitaries of one sort or another, and they warmly support her isolation. She is well shed, they feel, of her first husband, a medical researcher who, a few years before, with typical male arrogance, left Manhattan for a job in Denver, forcing Polly to choose between marriage and her museum job. Her only difficulty, in this view, is that their delightful 13-year-old son, who lives with her, is being transformed by puberty into a male animal, and thus an enemy...
Michael Milken, the most powerful financier of the 1980s, was limping when he entered a mid-Manhattan office last Wednesday to meet with TIME Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer for a rare interview. The 42-year-old junk- bond wizard was recovering, he explained, from knee surgery to remove cartilage he had torn in a backyard basketball game at his suburban Los Angeles home. Looking tanned and relaxed, Milken did not know that he was minutes away from being slammed with one of the most sweeping stock-fraud lawsuits in Wall Street history...
...complaint casts the Beverly Hills-based Milken as the mastermind of a secret, bicoastal arrangement with Ivan Boesky, the Manhattan financier now serving a three-year prison term for insider trading. From 1984 until late 1986, according to the Government, Boesky secretly bought and sold huge blocks of stock at Drexel's behest to push forward the firm's takeover deals and to reap millions of dollars in illicit profits. Five others were charged as participants in Drexel's schemes: Milken's younger brother Lowell, an attorney who works in the company's junk-bond department; Cary Maultasch and Pamela...