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DIED. ALBERT HACKETT, 95, stage- and screenwriter; in Manhattan. Hackett, with his first wife, Frances Goodrich, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for their play The Diary of Anne Frank. Their more than 30 movies include The Thin Man and It's a Wonderful Life...
...York attained its now partly lost eminence is the grand theme of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25), a detail-crammed psychohistory by Ann Douglas, who teaches English and comparative literature at Columbia University. As she interprets this era, the modern artists who gathered in New York to create a new American culture relied upon "terrible honesty"--a term devised by the crime writer Raymond Chandler--to overthrow the romanticizing, domineering matriarchal ethos of the late Victorian...
...band's first gold record (500,000 copies). Moloney, 56, may not have smelled gold, or cared if he did. "Who knows how these things will go?" he says, taking a rare breather in a 20-city U.S. tour that includes a St. Patrick's Day concert at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall. "But we had so much fun doing the set, I thought something good might come...
...Manhattan over Georgia Tech. Absurd...
Despite significant progress since the 1970s in changing how the U.S. legal system treats sex crimes and public attitudes towards sexual violence, much remains to be done, the bureau chief of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit said in a speech at the Cronkhite Graduate Center last night...