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...from the late '60s until just a few years ago the ninth circle of Times Square. "You could buy anything you wanted, whether it was drugs or girls or boys or green cards or telephone cards. You really felt like you were walking through this hellish zone," says Cora Cahan, president of the New 42nd Street Inc., which is overseeing the restoration of seven of the strip's nine theaters. Back in 1978 more than twice as many street crimes were reported on the block as on any other block in the entire city. In 1984 the city- planning-commission...
...Beauty and the Beast was imminent on Broadway. As it happens, the architect Robert A.M. Stern, who had devised post-Johnson-Burgee guidelines for 42nd Street, is a member of Disney's board. Stern told Eisner about the New Amsterdam. On a grim winter day, Stern and Cora Cahan took Eisner, his wife and son on a tour of the theater, shuttered since...
...experiences clamoured for by its audiences, emerged as brilliant, outrageous theatricality, a cross between a synogogue and a bawdy house, as the poet Moshe Lieb Halpern called it. At the center of this precarious world was The Forward, a socialist paper published daily in Yiddish by the remarkable Abraham Cahan. Howe notes that the problem with The Forward was precisely the problem with the Jewish community: ambivalence toward the American vision of success. Cahan himself wrote the outstanding novel of the Jewish immigrant experience, The Rise of David Levinsky, which is about the price of success in this country. Cahan...
...Sherman Holcombe because of his union activity. We hope that The Crimson will be more careful in the future. Walter Carlip Peter S. Hogness Sue Thiemann Gary Conroy Thomas W. Barber Jeffrey K. Griffiths Diane Sperling Gustavo Buntinx Cathy Perlmutter Reed Sutherland Ellen Kelman David Johnson Peter Liepmann Emily Cahan Marcella Calabi A.W. Merrill Adele Peskin
...tell us to say just that it was Bic's own natural ice cream," Cahan said. She added that Lessard instructed his employees to carry boxes of cones with their arms placed so as to ensure that the Brigham's label on the boxes would not be seen by customers...