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...piano bars, jazz joints and discos abound in the Big Apple, the Rainbow Grill is the classiest cabaret today in a city that once boasted such lively nocturnal redoubts as the Blue Angel, Le Ruban Bleu, La Vie en Rose, the Latin Quarter, the Persian Room and Cafe Society Uptown and Downtown. The irony is that this topless tower should be in the heart of staid Rockefeller Center, built 45 years ago by a family not exactly famed for tripping the light fantastic. On the other hand, the Rockefellers have never been known to disapprove of profitability, and the intimate...
Philharmonic goes uptown...
After going uptown, now back to basics for Middle America...
...Kenmore washing machines and Diehard batteries, which it sold at moderate prices and backed up with reliable service. But beginning in the early 1970s, Sears went astray. Pinched on one side by shopping-mall specialty stores and on the other by discounters like K mart, Sears tried to move uptown. Suddenly, along with familiar bestsellers like Craftsman home tools, Sears emphasized stylish items like Musk Oil aftershave. A merchandiser from New York's Bloomingdale's was hired as fashion director to lend some tony ambience...
...enormously successful Cabaret. Silverlake's theme, the venal rich vs. the virtuous poor, was so politically powerful in 1933 that Nazi storm troopers broke up performances. New York critics were not that harsh, but some deemed the libretto dated and the music not worth Weill. Still, uptown was heady for Grey. In lieu of Broadway's traditional "break a leg" opening night messages, a telegram from Met Tenor Placido Domingo invoked an ancient Jewish Spitzpah. "Ptui, ptui, ptui," it said, "on your operatic debut...