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January 10, 2000 Issue
"I never met these people before, and now I'm peeing with them."
-- Gibbie, a Times Square reveler, "Big Bash Theory"
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| COVER STORY | Big Bash Theory From Times Square to Jimmy's Bronx Cafe to Studio 54 to the streets of Crown Heights, the story of the party to end all parties, in words and pictures. Take My Wife... German-born literature professor Ernestine Schlant is not at all what most Americans think of when they think of a First Lady. But she's turning out to be husband Bill Bradley's secret weapon. Brasserie Tack Who'd have thought the city's first true twenty-first-century restaurant would turn out to be the Brasserie, the sixties-era eatery that fell off the radar long before it was shuttered in 1995? Now it's been resurrected by Restaurant Associates honcho Nick Valenti. Kid Rocks Chris Cuomo -- New York's favorite political son and hottest bachelor -- segues smoothly to the Gen-X beat on 20/20. GOTHAM
| DEPARTMENTS Media BY MICHAEL WOLFF Foolhardy predictions, from Amazon's fate to Gore's coup The Bottom Line The resurgence of haggling: why Wall Street loves dynamic pricing MARKETPLACE Tile style; woven-leather carry-ons; a sweetly silly nursery clock Sales & Bargains Fashion's dirty joke: seriously messed-up jeans THE CRITICS A schmaltzy script KO's Denzel Washington's Hurricane | Theater BY JOHN SIMON An updated Amadeus still seems contrived; Waiting in the Wings has waited long enough Classical Music John Harbison's The Great Gatsby could become a modern classic Dance The Ailey's glorious dancing deserves better choreography Insatiable Critic We'll always have Paris -- so long as we have Keith McNally CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |
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