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That is why New York was for more than two centuries -- and still is -- a beacon for the best, brightest and bravest people from all over the U.S. and all around the world. They come to test themselves against the toughest competition, to make a buck, to reinvent lives that seem stale in any other setting. As the song that has become the city's unofficial anthem puts it, "If I can make it there, I'd make it anywhere...
Skyrocketing real estate prices (a one-room apartment that rents for $800 a month is considered a bargain) have driven middle-class families out of Manhattan and are threatening the creative enterprises that make the island a cultural oasis. Twenty years ago, about 50 or 60 new productions opened on Broadway each year. Today soaring costs have driven the price of an orchestra seat to $60, and a healthy season yields no more than 35 new shows, only 12 of which are deemed successes. In dance alone, New York lost 55 world-class studios in the past four years. Others...
Before heading off for the welcome relief of superpower summitry, Gorbachev dispatched a telegram around the country ordering local authorities to make sure that peasants deliver grain to help solve the bread shortage. To ease tensions in the army, he issued a decree on improving the legal and economic rights of military personnel. A committee of top officials from Moscow and the republics has been set to work by Gorbachev on drafting a new treaty of the union. But one major item of business, so important that it may determine Gorbachev's political future and the very fate...
...approval. Then, in a dramatic about-face last month, Gorbachev invited the Russians to submit their scheme as the basis for a new economic program for the central government, to be drafted by a commission led by economist Stanislav Shatalin, a member of the group of Gorbachev advisers who make up the Presidential Council. The decision to join forces with Yeltsin was a masterstroke. By siding with the maverick Russian leader, who enjoys widespread popular support, Gorbachev improved his chances of pushing through reforms in an increasingly fractious country...
...rating sticks, Kaufman could become the most notable victim of an increasingly misguided system of self-censorship. Even in a year when the rating board has slapped Xs on a dozen films, the Henry & June rating sent new shudders through Hollywood's creative community. "Phil Kaufman does not make X-rated movies," says filmmaker James Brooks (Terms of Endearment). "So if Kaufman makes a movie that is rated X, then there's something wrong with the system...