Word: soho
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...class" films by directors in all parts of the world. His experience as a film reviewer has also broadened. Before coming to TIME as a film and television critic in June 1980, he worked as a reviewer for the National Review, New Times magazine, Maclean's and the Soho Weekly News...
...accommodations are now available even in New York City. Most are bedrooms in apartments in such diverse sites as the loft quarter of SoHo and Roosevelt Island in the East River, which is reached from midtown Manhattan by way of a scenic 3½-min. tram ride. Urban Ventures Inc., a booking service for New York B & Bs, has about 120 listings, nearly all in Manhattan. The most desirable rooms are also centrally located. "What they really want," jokes Mary McAulay, Urban Ventures' co-owner, "is a room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Rates for New York...
Others worry less that private funds will cramp styles. "Art has always had little to do with the economic currents of society; perhaps the cuts will provide an anxiety stimulus," Irving Karp, owner of the OK Harris gallery, in New York's SoHo, says. "I don't believe that there will be change in the genre of the works produced in the theater," Bob Moss, producer of March of the Falsettos, and current executive director of Playwrights Horizons, adds. "We have always produced what we believe in, what we know how to produce, rather than what we thought might make...
...observer's eye knows nothing of the sitters in advance. None of them is famous for being famous, except at the SoHo level of celebrity-some being, in fact, well-known artists, like the sculptor Richard Serra or the composer Philip Glass. Thus what Close proposes is a kind of portraiture diametrically opposite to Andy Warhol's images of Marilyn or Liz, where the painting, an icon of the Star, adapts itself to the intrusive power of repetition and generalization. With Close, there is no generalization at all. None of his faces has a role. There...
Morrison, however, indicts the present and sacrifices it, in her prose, to the power of her legends. Where there are no legends, the prose is dead. Jadine shows Son a chic N.Y. of Max's Kansas City at 4:00 a.m., promenades on Third Ave. from the Fifties to Soho listening to "RVR and BLS" and buying "mugs in Azuma's." None of these places mean anything to readers who do not know New York City, and few New Yorkers would claim these spots as immortal landscapes of their city. WRVR has already been taken off the air. This...