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While immigrant gangs once stuck to their own turf, rarely bothering the citizens uptown, the new gangs are becoming highly mobile, moving easily around a city and sometimes across the country. West Coast police report that Vietnamese groups may strike one night in San Jose, a couple of nights later in Dallas or Washington. Chinese gangs hound their prey all over the country. "They operate as though any Chinese person anywhere is fair game," according to a recent FBI report...
Hughes' routine is exacting and precise. He reserves his Mondays for museum shows. Tuesdays he goes to Manhattan's established uptown galleries. He saves Wednesdays for the new, more adventurous downtown shows, and the rest of the week is usually devoted to writing. He travels throughout the U.S. and to Europe two or three times a year. "I try to keep some balance between Manhattan and the rest of the world," he says...
...however, a dozen schools have opened to train newcomers. Architects are turning to neon to ornament postmodern designs, especially by tracing structural shapes and highlighting details. Slender ribs of blue neon provide elegant illumination for the walkway of a building in New York City's financial district. Uptown, Steven Panzarino, a New York City architect, is using neon for elevator indicator lights, recessed into the walls of a lobby. Says he: "We use it to enhance colors or show off a corner. You can bend it to design your own light. It gives off a mystical, ethereal quality...
...sales. Patrons of New York City's most famous saloon, the "21" Club, are rattling the aged bar with their orders for such low-proof and nostalgic concoctions as kir royale--champagne sweetened with a spoonful of French black-currant liqueur. At Elaine's restaurant, an uptown Manhattan hangout favored by the likes of Woody Allen and Michael Caine, the wee-hours drinkers have evaporated; the bar empties "early," around 1 a.m. Commuters on the Long Island Rail Road are buying a lot less liquor. Trendies at Sage's restaurant in Chicago interface over watermelon coolers. Everyone is still drinking...
...Hispanic accent gamely, if intermittently, to play the American Tony, Carreras lovingly spins out his phrases, making an impassioned romantic aria out of Maria and lending Puccinian fervor to the love duet One Hand, One Heart. Te Kanawa's pure, gleaming voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight effortlessly. Troyanos, who was born in the neighborhood where the musical is set (and where Lincoln Center now stands), crackles uninhibitedly in the rhythmically ) infectious...