Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although she thought she might want to be a writer, 18-year-old Tania Aebi was plying Manhattan's canyons as a bicycle messenger. Sensing that his daughter was adrift, Ernst Aebi presented her with an unusual choice: college tuition or a small boat she could sail around the world...
...radical chic" to describe affluent activists of the '60s and "the Me decade" to define the narcissistic '70s. Plutography is to money what pornography is to sex, explains the 56-year-old pioneer of the New Journalism, emphasizing that "today it is impossible to be too ostentatious." In Manhattan, where Wolfe and his wife, daughter and son occupy a four-story town house in the coveted East 60s, he notes that one of the latest examples of conspicuous display is the stretch limousines lined up in front of what he calls "this week's restaurant of the century." Inside these...
...later magazine pieces about Southern stock-car racing, California auto customizers, Manhattan's Pop art world, funky fashions and the navel engagements of the self-awareness movement confirmed Wolfe's originality. Unlike the reigning intellectuals of the day, he took American mass culture at face value, though not with a straight face. His New Journalism combined the skills and stamina of an ace reporter with the techniques of fiction, and it reached its peak in The Right Stuff, the 1979 recounting of the lives and times of the Mercury astronauts...
...this stratum are frequently accompanied by "lemon tarts," sleek, young blonds. Sherman McCoy is a decent well-bred sort, neither more nor less lustful than most confident 38-year-old males and particularly amusing when he gives facts and figures about how one can go broke in Manhattan on $1 million a year...
...middle class is a Hasidic landlord who bugs his rent-controlled apartments in the hope that he can learn of a violation that will enable him to evict low-paying tenants. Peter Fallow, the boozy London-expatriate reporter for Manhattan's British-owned tabloid the City Light, is a major contribution to the literature of journalistic sleaze. Lawrence Kramer, an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, exudes the resentment of a young man who has to live in a small, narrow, $888-a-month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother...