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Some observers credit rap music for the renewed interest in the spoken word. "Ears are being tuned up to listen to words again," says Manhattan's Holman. Events like slams are aimed to appeal to a generation accustomed to the frenetic action of MTV. Contestants at Chicago's Green Mill are encouraged to perform their poems to live music, creating a new blend of poetry and song that has been nicknamed -- what else -- pong. In New York City the deejay at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe plays James Brown records and other dance music during breaks between slam competition rounds...
...godfather of TV's back-to-the-past movement is the Museum of Television and Radio, a 15-year-old repository of memorabilia founded by former CBS chairman William S. Paley. At its elegant new quarters in midtown Manhattan, visitors can wander in and out of four screening rooms, browse through a computerized card catalog listing some 45,000 items, and repair to one of 96 TV and radio consoles to enjoy anything from President Kennedy's Inaugural Address to Don DeFore's inaugural appearance as Thorny on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet...
...Government's latest protected flipster. If juries find him believable, Gravano could obliterate the entire hierarchy of the Gambinos, New York City's largest crime family with more than 400 members and thousands of associates. "I think that in all likelihood it's over for Gotti," exclaims Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's district attorney...
...block, became the father of a daughter, then went through a divorce from the woman he had met as a Harvard undergraduate. After a long bachelorhood he was introduced to novelist Ellen Schwamm. Two weeks later, she left her husband of 23 years and moved into Brodkey's cluttered Manhattan apartment. They were married in 1980. He supported himself by teaching part time at Cornell, developing scripts at NBC and artfully freeloading. He advertised himself as "an incredibly good dinner guest...
...buckle bunnies." To most other athletes, they are just "the wannabes" or "the girls." You'll find them hanging out anywhere they might catch an off-duty sports hero's eye and fancy: at Los Angeles' private Forum Club, at jock-oriented watering holes like Mickey Mantle's in Manhattan or Bigsby's in Chicago, in the lobbies of hotels where teams on the road check in. To the athletes who care to indulge them, and many do, these readily available groupies offer pro sport's ultimate perk: free and easy recreational sex, no questions asked...