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SENOR WENCES, 100, MANHATTAN; Ventriloquist from TV's golden age His guttural "s'all right" and squeaky "s'okay" have somehow remained part of the American comic vocabulary even as Senor Wences has faded from sight. Last week the ventriloquist quietly celebrated his 100th birthday with family in Manhattan before taking off for his customary half-year in his native Spain. Senor Wences was a staple on TV for three decades, starting on the Ed Sullivan Show, where he conducted absurd conversations with his dummy Pedro, his puppet Cecelia the chicken, or the blond-wigged Johnny, a face he painted...
...BRONX, N.Y.: A civil jury ordered famed 80's subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz to pay one of his victims $43 million for pain, suffering and punitive damages. Darrell Cabey, left paralyzed and brain damaged after being shot by Goetz in a Manhattan subway 12 years ago, will probably never see most of that money, as Goetz is practically penniless after paying for both his civil and criminal defense. Cabey was shot several times after he and three friends approached Goetz in the subway and asked him for five dollars. The men say they were simply panhandling, but Goetz testified that...
...have a bank card, a business card and way too many credit cards. Do you still have one card too few? Visa, MasterCard, Citibank and Chase Manhattan all think so. This fall New York City will thrill to the roll-out of cash cards, the latest salvo in the banking and credit-card industries' eternal search to replace currency with plastic. Despite promises of a cashless society, 85% of everyday transactions are in cash or checks, which generate little income for banks...
...roaring around the world. Sons and daughters have become the projection of their parents' dreams and the repository of their hopes. "We're moving, in a cultural sense, in the direction of having every kid be a star," says James Dawson, head of the Professional Children's School in Manhattan, which is attended by aspiring and professional actors, musicians, figure skaters and models. "By doing that, of course, what you really say to kids is that normalcy is below...
Blue is the sort of tragically fragile figure someone like Jean Rhys might have created had she written 50 years later and chosen to focus on the lives of well- dressed, verbally agile gay men orbiting the Manhattan-Fire Island party circuit rather than meek turn-of-the-century waifs searching for love in all the wrong outfits. But for Blue, the narrator and centerpiece of Mark O'Donnell's unusually witty novel Getting Over Homer (Knopf; 193 pages; $21), there is at least hope beyond the sort that a good dose of Zoloft could offer...