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...uptown area has suffered considerable damage. It's been closed off," said Whittier police Officer Mike Willis...
...teacher in The Bill Cosby Show, an engaging series that was nevertheless canceled after two seasons. A comedy-variety series called The New Bill Cosby Show lasted only one; another effort, Cos, failed in less than two months. Cosby landed a few movie roles in such films as Uptown Saturday Night, California Suite and Hickey and Boggs (a rare and surprisingly effective dramatic performance). But his film career failed to ignite. Cosby refuses to characterize the time as a career slump but admits it was a "period when I was being ignored by some people...
Over the next few decades, Columbia became the school it is today, complete with a large uptown campus. But with an admissions process that discrimated against immigrant Jews and other lower-class New Yorkers, Columbia's student body did not represent the city's changing population. Under reactionary University president Nicholas Butler, Columbia had to become more wily...
Such was the scene at Sotheby's and Christie's during the past two weeks as the speculative fever of Wall Street moved uptown and into the high-rent district. At Manhattan's two premiere bidding houses, the art market set almost hourly records, culminating last week in sales of some $120 million, the most lucrative week in auction history...
...exhibition of more than 300 pieces of ceramics, jewelry, textiles and woodwork by 286 contemporary American artisans. The show runs in New York through March 22; it will then travel to Denver, Laguna Beach, Calif., Phoenix, Milwaukee, Louisville and Richmond, Va. "Poetry of the Physical" glistens with a surprising uptown-chic patina. It is sure to shock viewers who think of crafts as a matter of candlesnuffers, quilts and weather vanes. The exhibition is rekindling old arguments over such divisions as utility vs. decoration and artist vs. artisan. Smith put together this group of objects produced since 1980 to highlight...