Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That feeling struck TIME Correspondent Thomas McCarroll the day he set out for a luncheon interview with William Simon at the financier's summer home on Long Island. It took McCarroll 75 minutes just to get off Manhattan Island. Then he found himself on an expressway covered with what seemed like "a million cars. By the time I reached Simon's home, he couldn't do the interview," says McCarroll. "I apologized profusely, blamed the traffic and apologized some more." Simon rescheduled the interview, but McCarroll's useless round trip, which should have taken four hours, consumed more than seven...
Sometimes the shoe pinches the other foot. New York Governor Mario Cuomo was almost an hour late for a lunch with TIME's editors because his car was caught in Manhattan traffic. His aides could do little other than telephone from the vehicle. Car phones are especially popular in Los Angeles, where many of TIME's ad-sales executives have installed them. Says Los Angeles Division Manager Steve Seabolt: "When you call and say, 'I'm on the freeway,' people know just what you mean...
...need to free myself of the Lennon name." Her tender contributions to that album were inspired not by John, as everyone was led to believe, but by a man named Sam Green, her lover of the moment. And Lennon's tales of cozy domesticity in the Dakota, his Manhattan apartment house, did not stand up to Goldman's six years of research and interviews; servants handled the baking and child minding while John either nodded off or padded about the place naked and drugged to his eyeballs...
Louis Lopez, 47, leans on crutches against a newspaper kiosk on upper Broadway in Manhattan. He used to be a TV repairman, until he got caught in the cross fire of a gang shoot-out 18 months ago. He collects $370 a month in disability benefits. "How can I live on that? I am a good technician. But as you see, I can't work." Does he drink, use drugs? "No. I can hardly crawl around when I am sober...
...advertising industry, small shops are thinking big these days. Fast- moving and feisty, the upstarts are luring a growing share of blue-chip accounts away from the Madison Avenue behemoths. While agencies like Manhattan's Young & Rubicam (1987 billings: $4.9 billion) and London's Saatchi ) & Saatchi ($4.6 billion) have tried to dominate the business by taking over competitors, firms less than one-tenth their size are attracting large ad accounts to such off-the-avenue cities as Boston and Minneapolis. In mid- August the Richards Group of Dallas ($97 million) snared the $15 million account for the Long John Silver...