Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years at Eastern resorts or in Europe. The kids were privately tutored, and Sunny prevented them from mixing with anyone outside the family. She refused to lower her expectations even after Bill Clift lost his money in the Depression. Though the Clifts moved to a one-room apartment in Greenwich Village, the sheets were made of silk, and the table was always set with sterling silver...
...York: Ed Koch, 52, seemed destined to represent his relatively affluent Manhattan congressional district for the remainder of his political career. What, after all, could a balding, puckish Greenwich Village bachelor with a near-perfect A.D.A. record have to say to the rest of the hardbitten, crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city? Quite a bit, as it turned...
Gino Gallina, 42, a handsome former Manhattan assistant district attorney who became a lawyer for the Mob, was gunned down in gangland style on a Greenwich Village street. Seven bullets riddled Gallina, and he died 90 minutes later...
...years Manhattan Poet Joel Oppenheimer, now 47, took exactly the same route from his Greenwich Village apartment to his local bar, the Lion's Head. One day he tried a more circuitous route, walking along different streets. Midway to the bar he broke out in a cold sweat, suffering from heart palpitations, jelly legs and vertigo. "I had no control over my body," he said. "It was total panic...
Such similarities between events in the book and in the real world might, possibly, be coincidental. But in several references, such as when one character is mentioned as having known a woman killed in the 1970 explosion of a "bomb factory" in Greenwich Village, the difference between fact and fiction is negligible...