A 40-year-old man from Coral Gables, Fla., made his fatal leap just before 9 am today after trying to check in to the hotel, law enforcement sources said. A hotel employee told him that they did not have a room for him, so he gave them his credit card, then made his way up to […]
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Art: Dawn Pictures
Five months ago Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art crowned its notable 1936-3 7 season with a comprehensive exhibit of the very latest artistic wrinkle, Surrealism.
Religion: Smart Syrian
Wearing a black gown and a black-veiled mitre, there arrived in Manhattan last autumn His Grace the Most Reverend Theodosios Abourjaily, Archbishop of Tyre & Sidon, Metropolitan of Judadeh and personal delegate of Alexander III, Patriarch of Antioch in the Syrian branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of North America, with 60,0000 members, had been without a head since 1934, when Archbishop Victor and his two immediate subordinates died.
Science: Handwriting As Character
Graphology , long in the same U.S. doghouse with such pseudosciences as astrology, palmistry, phrenology may not be so phony as scientists have thought it.
The New Transformers: Turn On the Dark
The midtown-Manhattan crowd — real people, not movie reviewers, except for this one — stood patiently in line for a 12:15 A.M.
Cellists: The Sad Hero
One of the hard realities of launching a concert career in the U.S. is the necessity of a recital, preferably in Manhattan's hallowed Carnegie Hall, the cost of which—anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000— must be footed by the artist
Louis CK’s Hands-On Sitcom
Inside a crowded apartment in upper Manhattan, the executive producer of the FX comedy Louie needs to confer with the director, the star, the writer and the editor.
Hitting the Mafia
The aging bosses seated at the defense table in the packed federal courtroom in lower Manhattan look harmless enough to be spectators at a Sunday-after noon boccie game.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Court: Trial of Century Begins
The scrum of reporters assembles in the pre-dawn quiet two blocks from the border of Chinatown. It is more than two hours before Dominique Strauss-Kahn is scheduled to make an appearance, but it doesn’t matter.
Tree Believer: Terrence Malick’s Cinematic Vision
In August 1973, a quiet young courier took a print of Terrence Malick’s debut feature Badlands from Los Angeles to Manhattan for submission to the New York Film Festival. After the screening, festival chief Richard Roud said to the messenger, “Would you please tell Mr