Word: manhattanization
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...hear a wolf whistle from the crowd when the curtain goes up on an evening of ballet. But that's what happened last week at Minneapolis' Northrop Auditorium as the music of rock star Prince zoomed toward bombination. The occasion was Billboards, a new work presented by the Manhattan-based Joffrey Ballet in a frank attempt to link the world of ballet to the life of young people in the streets. The company desperately needs a hit, and Billboards -- loud, generous of spirit, heart-on-sleeve romantic -- looks to be it. Last week the 4,800-seat Northrop was nearly...
...millions of Americans fanatically devoted to Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern have one major common hypothesis about the way the world works, it is & that a rich and powerful elite, congregated in Manhattan, sits in posh salons sipping cocktails and smugly denigrating them and their unorthodox heroes...
...they're right. One evening last week at the grand Manhattan home of former Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher and his wife Georgette, chat among the guests, who included eminence grise Pete Peterson and Sally Jessy Raphael, variously covered Somalia and Bosnia -- and, eventually, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern. Another guest, the woman who edits both Limbaugh and Stern (as well as Mrs. Mosbacher and Beavis and Butt-head) for Pocket Books, came under attack for publishing Stern's unseemliness. His book, Private Parts, in addition to autobiographical particulars and his not-exactly-progressive views on social issues, flaunts...
...sauntered about from booth to booth, absorbing all of this intensity, wondering what message the Forum was sending to me. Chase Manhattan Bank, First Boston Investment Banking, IDS Financial Services--there certainly were a lot of big names here to harvest Harvard's most-eager. Merrill Lynch, Corporate Decisions, Price Waterhouse--was I detecting a pattern? Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Management, Boston Consulting--hold on. I stopped to get a list of exactly who was wooing and being wooed by Harvard's ripest undergraduates. The companies were grouped by field, with consulting, financial services, and investment banking making up almost...
...hours when she was not being a mother or a breadwinner. After her 1964 divorce and resignation from Howard, Morrison and her children moved to Syracuse, New York, where she edited textbooks at a subsidiary of Random House. Three years later she was transferred to the publisher's Manhattan headquarters...