Word: harlemization
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...this stage version should be excessive, sensual, tumultuous, colorful. That was my view of urban India in that period." After a five-week run in London, the show will go to the U.S., first to Ann Arbor, Michigan, then New York, where Columbia University will present it at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater. Rushdie, who now lives in New York, loves the idea of his work being staged there. "For the RSC to go to Harlem is an important cultural event in itself, but there are resonances there with Midnight's Children. Race relations, the clash of cultures, questions...
...private law firm, Constantine & Partners, and began planning for the following election. He traveled up and down New York, rubbing shoulders with key state political players and meeting the masses. He hit almost every county, putting 70,000 miles on the family minivan. Keith Wright, a state assemblyman from Harlem, remembers campaigning with Spitzer, walking into subway stations, senior centers, hairdressers'. At the end of the day he offered Spitzer a ride home. Spitzer declined, saying he would catch a gypsy cab. "I thought, That's my man," Wright says. "Man of the people--in a gypsy...
...lyrics preoccupied moralists in Congress in the summer of 2000--when they had more time on their hands--declared war on the Bush Administration and slammed his critics as racial hypocrites who discovered rap only when white teens started listening to it: "Hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston." It's Eminem's most political song, even if it is rooted in his bottomless sense of personal grievance, which seems to grow in direct proportion to his bank account. On Square Dance, he anticipated that Iraq would be next on America's target list long before...
...City, students prepare a different healthy dish each week--most recently, fried rice with green beans, red peppers, mushrooms and more--and exchange letters with local farmers. "This is different from the fried rice I've had before," said a beaming Jose Gonzalez, 8, at P.S. 38 in East Harlem during a CookShop session last week. "Normally it doesn't have all these vegetables." The lesson seems to be sinking in: students in the CookShop program are more likely to pick healthier meals at the cafeteria. "It's not about vitamins and why you shouldn't eat fat," says...
Clinton wasn't, of course, the primary reason the Democrats lost, but there's no reason to think he would accept responsibility if he were. At a postelection dinner in his Harlem office, Clinton, his voice hoarse after three red-eye flights, said only that you can't beat a party with a message with a party without one, ignoring the fact that he is the master of blurring the differences, of shaking down the same wealthy donors as the opposition in exchange for a similar nonthreatening agenda...