Word: manhattanization
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...wonder it has a broad, flourishing market. On Manhattan's East Side, David Saity sees an influx of international customers in his elegant showroom. But then, this veteran jeweler was accustomed to having Fred Astaire drop by in search of a little bit of luck. Fine specimens need not be pricey. For one thing, gold is still rarely used. "Silver jewelry is a lot less expensive than gold," says Raphael Seidel, owner of Golden Fleece in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "If you lose a silver earring, you don't have to make a trip to your psychiatrist...
...TITLE: MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY...
...inspired passage. Allen and Marshall Brickman, the co-writer who worked with him so brilliantly in the past (Annie Hall, Manhattan), have concocted a steady stream of badinage that buoys the whole movie along. But these exchanges evaporate, and the movie is surprisingly flat visually. There comes a moment when you realize how wrong just being funny is for Allen. Ambition is an essential goad to his sensibility. It pushes him toward the rueful resonances of those previous Brickman collaborations and toward the magical transformations of reality in The Purple Rose of Cairo and Radio Days...
Several things are wrong with this amiably unpretentious fable. First, after repeatedly failing to reach Broadway, the creators have opted for a postage- stamp stage in lower Manhattan. The sets are mostly paintings on roller- drops, slowly uncoiling to the floor ("It looks like we're in the 19th century," admits one of the team privately), and choreographer Peter Gennaro has no room to move. The use of Theoni Aldredge's Broadway-budget costumes just makes the surrounding skimpiness look worse...
...Ganesh, at the Manhattan Theatre Club, McNally sends two American women to India because they "heard it could heal" and has them face troubling truths about the cancer of prejudice and privilege inside the nicest people. Guided by the cheerful Hindu god Ganesha, the women learn to recognize the illness and -- not to cure it, but something harder -- to live with...