The -Sex and the City- columnist for the New York Observer documents the social scene of modern-day Manhattan. The reader gets an introduction to -Modelizers,- the men who only have eyes for models, as well as a more common species, the -Toxic Bachelor.- Reading like a society novel gone downtown and askew, Sex and the City is a comically sordid look at status and ambition and the many characters consumed by the sexual politics of the '90s.