Word: manhattanization
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Popularly known as the Borscht Belt, the Catskill mountains some 60 miles north of Manhattan were where generations of New York City's Jews went to play. The area's hotels specialized in big-league eating, nonstop schmoozing and lavish nighttime entertainment. The most serious summertime sport was the mating game, with anxious mothers steering their daughters at those waiters known to be in medical or law school...
During the ride back to Manhattan, Blades returns the compliment. "It's always a pleasure to find someone whose work is authentic," he says. "Playing with my band is the same feeling. It's like dancing with the truth, and she likes it. The closer you get, the more you enjoy it; the more you dance, the better it feels...
...enrolled in law school at the University of Panama, "to please my parents," and passed the bar. But a short visit to New York City left the young attorney torn between the courtroom and the recording studio. The final verdict favored music, and by 1974 Blades was back in Manhattan for good. "This was the place to be," he says. "There was a strong Latin-music movement...
Although seven of the twelve jurors said they believed the nine child witnesses were molested "in some sense by someone," the prosecution was unable to show that the children were abused at the McMartin Pre-School in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Nonetheless, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 63, and her son Raymond, 31, spent two years and five years, respectively, in jail before their acquittal on 52 criminal counts. They have lost everything, including their good standing in the community...
...ordeal began on Aug. 12, 1983, when Judy Johnson complained to Manhattan Beach police that her son had been molested by a man named Mister Ray. The boy, 2 1/2, had attended McMartin Pre-School 14 times over three months and had been in Buckey's class no more than two afternoons. Johnson's complaints against Buckey grew increasingly bizarre. She accused him of sodomizing her son while he stuck the boy's head in a toilet, making him ride naked on a horse and tormenting him with an air tube. She made similar accusations against her estranged husband...