Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bundy story without in some way describing his grisly crimes. But on the day of his execution, did a Detroit TV station really have to rebroadcast file footage of Campbell's 1975 funeral? Last week 250 journalists, health-care professionals and members of the clergy gathered in Manhattan to explore such questions at a conference titled "Death, the Media and the Public: Needs of the Bereaved." Sponsored by the Foundation of Thanatology, a New York City-based organization devoted to studying bereavement, as well as the Dallas Morning News and the Milwaukee Journal, the three-day symposium covered everything from...
...performance-based pay they deserve, supporters of the policy feel that a salary elevates servers to a more professional status. "Our waiters have higher self-esteem, since they are no longer dependent on handouts from persons to whom they must be obsequious," says Barry Wine, owner of Manhattan's ultrapricey Quilted Giraffe, where there is a service charge. But in the competitive restaurant business, few owners are likely to pick up a hot potato like the service charge until they are sure their rivals are going to go along...
...Joel Steinberg case, decided two weeks ago, dwarfs them all. The Manhattan lawyer was accused of brutalizing his lover Hedda Nussbaum and was convicted of manslaughter in the death of their illegally adopted daughter Lisa. Here was every ingredient of the true-crime blockbuster: cocaine, an S-M relationship, a beautiful six-year-old and a battered woman, all set against the background of Greenwich Village. Most important, in a city afflicted with racial malaise, it starred what Tom Wolfe identified in The Bonfire of the Vanities as the Great White Defendant...
Diana takes Manhattan, and a bit of Brooklyn too, during a whirlwind royal visit (sans Prince Charles) that includes a night at the opera and a day with the homeless...
...years after his death, a Manhattan show traces the Pop artist's powerful vision of, and later surrender to, mass imagery. Ultimately, his most authentic creation may have been his own fame...