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...doubled, from 6,892 in 1991 to 12,537 this year. "I have been consulted in the past month by a woman administrator in a college, two women in Wall Street firms, a woman in a consulting firm and a woman in the government," said Judith Vladeck, a prominent Manhattan sex- discrimination lawyer. Immediately after last week's decision, lawyers around the country felt the impact. Shelly Mandell, a Los Angeles attorney whose firm specializes in sexual-harassment cases, said that calls have tripled since the opinion was handed down. Said one advocate, barely suppressing his enthusiasm: "This case ends...
...couple of years ago, two guys were sitting in the MTV offices in downtown Manhattan, throwing down some Bloody Maries and toasting the success they've been having with Downtown Julie Brown. One of them, in an alcoholic fog, chortled as he suggested that MTV could do nothing wrong. "Why," he stammered, "we could even do a show that was all acoustic and people would watch...
...acting was natural, unaffected, real." Some regretted the loss of great Phoenix roles: "I felt he got cheated and I got cheated," says John Pinto, 25, of Chicago. Other fans suspended belief. "I was waiting for him to come back to life," says Gabrielle Brechner, 17, a senior at Manhattan's Dalton School, "the way they always do in the movies." The shock arose less from the apparent stupidity of Phoenix's death than from the stanching of both a munificent acting gift and a winning screen personality...
...lawyers fretted over the child's heir rights, the tabloid tom- toms spread the word that the infant's moniker was a belated art-of-the- deal tribute to real estate air rights. The eponymous Trump Tower was built in 1983 with the help of that patch of Manhattan sky owned by Tiffany & Co. How much more tasteful had the parents simply explained that Tiffany rhymes with epiphany...
Coolidge Corner Cinema. 390 Harvard St., Brookline. 734-2500. On Thursday, Nov. 11. "Singing in the Rain" at 2:25 p.m. "8 1/2" at 4:45 and 9:20. "La Strada" at 7 p.m. "Manhattan Murder Mystery" at 2, 4, 6 and 8. "Blade Runner...