Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beggars of every imaginable description with every conceivable need. Some passersby do not believe their stories; others just do not believe in giving handouts. But even those who once unfailingly reached out to any outstretched palm now find themselves overwhelmed and unsure: To give or not to give? In Manhattan, where the beggars are legion, the sheer weight of their number and the volume of their appeals have set the city on edge. "New Yorkers feel besieged by the city's dirt, by noise, by heat," says Robert Levy of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "Now they also feel...
...disaster to hit, U.S. banks are making substantial progress in reducing their vulnerability to Third World debt. The banks have raised new capital, set aside billions of dollars in reserves to cover possible losses, and sold off some of their shakier loans to investors at deep discounts. Chase Manhattan, for example, has trimmed its Third World loan portfolio in the past year from $6.7 billion to $6.5 billion. Since the bank's capital has been rising, its loans to developing countries have been reduced from 185% of shareholders' equity in 1987 to 150% today...
There is no salvation for Irving in Director Joan Micklin Silver's Crossing Delancey. The star, playing a Manhattan bookstore manager named Isabelle Grossman, is made to look tired and behave with moral myopia. Can't Isabelle see that the European author (Jeroen Krabbe) who courts her is just one more serpent-eyed wordsmith who would flatter a pretty woman's intellect to soften her resolve? Can't she tell that sweet-souled Sam Posner (Peter Riegert), a pickle salesman from the old neighborhood, is the guy for her? Isabelle's Yiddishe grandma (Reizl Bozyk) can tell, in cliches that...
That early work is interesting but tentative. The real Mapplethorpe is the one who arrived on the scene suddenly in 1977 with three Manhattan gallery shows. One was devoted solely to his S-M imagery, pictures that brought him quick notoriety. They were affronting but memorable, and hard to pigeonhole. At first glance they were in the venerable photographic tradition of scenes brought back from exotic territory, like 19th century portraits of Indians in full headdress. But the people in them were not foreign to Mapplethorpe. They were his friends and sexual playmates. If this was documentary, it was from...
...when Frank gets prematurely deceased, courtesy of his jealous capo Tony "the Tiger" Russo (Dean Stockwell), Angela moves to a scuzzy Manhattan flat and makes friends with a nice guy named Mike (Matthew Modine). He's an FBI agent on a Mob detail, but what does this vulnerable widow know? As the camera tiptoes closer, Angela pours out her valentine-on-velvet heart. Tony this, Frank that, life sure does stink. And at the precise intersection of streetwise agony and Method acting -- the very moment at which an actress is expected to secure her Oscar nomination -- Michelle Pfeiffer crosses...