Word: uptowners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GEORGE MCGOVERN has a new office in Washington now, a few miles uptown from Capitol Hill, at Dupont Circle. He still hasn't broken the place in yet: it's a bit understaffed, scantily furnished, and the walls are bare except for some old McGovern '72 posters. This is the first new office George McGovern has had in eighteen years. The one he used to have, in the Russell Senate Office Building, belongs now to James Abdnor, the New Right Republican who won the 1980 election for senator in South Dakota...
Some Big Three network executives charged with keeping their affiliates in line have been disappointed to see a handful carrying INN'S news along with the uptown variety. That trend is likely to continue as the profitable little network branches out: next October INN will add a half-hour midday news show. Within a few years, says Corporon, "we could have five or six programs on the air." For the moment, however, INN'S greatest contribution is to knee-high stations like KGSW in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Says General Manager Erick Steffens: "Before, if a Mount St. Helens...
...weekly payday, having written five reviews and collected thirty dollars," he writes, "I'd shine my rotting shoes, press my crotchstinking, shinyassed pants, trim the fray from shirt and jacket, knot up my best greasy tie, pour down a tall wine or two for ballast, then subway uptown to The Forum of the Twelve Caesars or The Four Seasons for one costly drink amid the greatest elegance available to me, burn for one brief moment! I hoped for a triumph of décor over loneliness...
...most important, and even today there are memories of the golden days when tourists came from all over the world for a night at the Cotton Club or the Apollo Theater. This four-part series is both a history and a celebration of those storied blocks of uptown Manhattan, a fascinating scrapbook of a lost and almost forgotten time...
...events, from Seventh-Avenue con men to Sugar Ray Robinson. He embraced his subjects' lives and their outlook on the world; searched out their motivations and methods and then laid forth their lives, mostly in their own words--but through his own wild periscope of the self-style uptown revel, the reluctant Jew, the recipient of all that his immigrant father had built from scratch long that same seamy side of New York, including what Joseph and Abbott Liebling had tried their best to shield him from. His parents' efforts led to his schizophrenic class attitudes: in his own life...