Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Saturday night, Chapman hailed a cab and told Driver Mark Snyder to take him to Greenwich Village. On the way he boasted that he had just dropped off the tapes of an album John Lennon and Paul McCartney made that day. He said that he was the recording engineer and that they had played for three hours...
Lured by the glamour of New York City, the couple spent much time there in the years from 1950 to 1954. His interest was music, and he frequented the concert halls. Her interest was art, and she spent her evenings in The Club in Greenwich Village and other haunts of the then avant-garde New York School of painting. At the nearby Cedar Bar, Jackson Pollock caroused, Robert Motherwell discoursed, Willem de Kooning waxed disputatious. Her hair was blond, her figure svelte, her age happily indeterminate (actually mid-30s) and her artistic commitment impeccable. She was on their wave length...
...Simon's more recent works. He yearns for and works to draw a larger following, but his devotion to his work, including weeks at a time spent on the road, has nearly destroyed his relationship with his wife and young son. The movie jumps back and forth from his Greenwich Village apartment, to scenes of concert performances and travel with the band, to meetings with those arch-enemies of creativity, the record company executives...
...nice people to read in their nice New Yorkers when they're through looking at the cartoons, inferring polite, understated meanings with a precise style and weightless control. But one knows his Alaska is an idealized one to read about in front of the fire on a cold Greenwich, Conn. night accompanied by 12-year-old bourbon. One knows his flawless Alaska book, while making lyrical, profound reading, misses much of Alaska, for few there give a damn about art, and fewer still have any particular use for politeness...
...first MIT fellow is Ming-Kai Tse, an engineer who will go to the headquarters of American Can in Greenwich, Conn. A $150,000 grant from the company will go towards his salary, benefits, and paymentsfor a research assistant, Richard Wrecht, an American Can spokesman, said...