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...During his stay in the Big Apple he showed up backstage after taking in Shirley MacLaine's Broadway hit. Then it was off to Washington, where he checked into the Four Seasons Hotel virtually unnoticed, until he asked the management to install a 6-ft. by 8-ft. parquet dance floor in his fourth-floor suite. Jackson appeared next at the White House, to be lauded by the President and Nancy Reagan for allowing his song Beat It to be used in a Government anti-drunk-driving ad campaign. Resplendent in his glittery white glove and electric blue...
...whole islands, the latest styles in scalawags and gentrification. Simons revisits Charles ton's old Negro market and finds that things have changed: "Bats, rafters, shale, pee, lead paint, clothes wads, the stuck bar ber pole, chili in open pots, all went to dropped ceilings for energy saving, parquet, rest rooms, pastel, jean shops, international flags waving in front of a deli store, and food described on a blackboard...
...those upwardly mobile folk with designer water, running shoes, pickled parquet floors and $450,000 condos in semislum buildings? Yuppies, of course, for Young Urban Professionals, and the one true guide to their carefully hectic life-style is The Yuppie Handbook (Long Shadow Books; $4.95). Tongue firmly in chic, Authors Marissa Piesman and Marilee Hartley tirelessly chronicle the ways of the Yuppie, along with its lesser-known subspecies the Guppie (Gay Urban Professional) and Puppie (Pregnant Urban Professional). Both writers are accredited Yups: Piesman, 32, is a lawyer, and Hartley, 38, is an editor...
...their favorite bar now has an asparagus fern in the window. Yuppies do not reside in houses or apartments but in "living spaces," often in run-down neighborhoods from which their immigrant grandparents fled. "Yuppies will live anywhere," says the Handbook, "as long as the floors are genuine parquet and there's another Yuppie on the block...
...permanent residents are so cozily American as to suggest habitats for Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, or maybe the Cleaver family of TV sitcom fame. Typical of the more lavish structures are three-bedroom ranchettes done in a kind of Arabic Southern California motif, with central air conditioning, parquet floors, and General Electric ranges and Kitchenaid pot-scrubber dishwashers in the kitchen. Prices can range as high as $300,000 each for the dwellings, though much more modest accommodations, including town houses and four-story apartment buildings, are also going...