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Global banking is inevitable. Says Thompson Swayne, who oversees Chase Manhattan operations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East: "As companies and markets go global, countries become less important and companies become more important. As they go global, their financing goes with them." But where the financing comes from, and who reaps the rewards, are exactly what the bareknuckle banking competition is all about...
...result is a new buzz word for health clubs: wellness. Many are evolving into comprehensive health centers, as concerned with emotional and medical well-being as with thighs and love handles. Nowadays, says Craig Pepin-Donat of the New York Health and Racquet Club in Manhattan, people "want more than sweat, metal and mirrors. They want places that are concerned with the whole person...
Slesin and three assistants publish Microwave News out of a three-room Manhattan apartment that used to be his home. In addition to major reports on the hazards of electric blankets, microwave ovens and medical imaging systems, a typical 16-page issue will summarize the latest health studies, monitor ongoing litigation and track various government activities, like this week's congressional hearings on the status of federal research efforts. Subscribers include utilities and communications companies and officials in some 30 government agencies...
...psychoanalyst), I'd finally come to some sort of terms with my homosexuality," White writes in States of Desire. By the time he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1962, he had accepted -- indeed become fully committed to -- a homosexual life and life-style. He moved to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, working by day, writing by night, and coming to the realization that his art would suffer unless his culture were reflected in his writing: "You see, many of us began by thinking that we were basically heterosexual except for this funny little thing, this sexual habit...
Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and a leader of Manhattan's literary brat pack, has a novel due out next February that is already causing controversy. Staff members at Simon & Schuster who have read the manuscript, titled American Psycho, say it chronicles a young Wall Street banker who is involved in sexual perversities, murders, mutilations and diverse other grotesqueries and degradations. Robert Asahina, Ellis' editor, allows, "It is a book that can be at times upsetting to read." Some are so upset that they have balked at working on the novel. But Ellis has his defenders...