Word: nyc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NYC Department of Personnel...
Joanne (Lisa Tornell) and Larry (Steve Lyne), the jet set couple with multiple marriages show that money isn't everything and, as Joanne makes quite clear, marriage isn't sacred. Tornell's portrayal is sharp and consistent throughout; she perfectly fills out the stereotype of the callous NYC socialite. Filling out the duo, Lyne makes the most of a sketchy character with clever, impromptu gestures...
Looking Back at the NYC Mayoral Race: Why it came out as it did, Carol Bellamy, Ames Courtroom, Harvard Law School...
...personals. The ads tend sometimes to be a little ner- vous and needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands on end a bit when he encounters "Alarmingly articulate, incorrigibly witty, overeducated but extreme- ly attractive NYC woman." A female reader of New York might enjoy a chuckling little shudder at this: "I am here! A caring, knowing, daffy, real, tough, vulnerable and handsome brown-eyed psychoanalyst." One conjures up the patient on the couch and a Freudian in the shape of Daffy Duck shouting: "You're desPICable...
This discipline is particularly evident in the books' capsule architectural notes (color-coded blue) on outstanding buildings, a subject often neglected by other guides. The NYC Access entry on the design of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel ("an understated and elegantly detailed composition") reports such esoteric details as the underground railroad station from which Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to his suite by a secret elevator. The books abound in learned footnotes and pleasant trivia (the pianist at the Waldorf's Peacock Alley uses an instrument once owned by Cole Porter, who lived in the hotel). New York restaurant critiques...