Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After dropping a tough four-set match to Cornell on Friday, the Harvard women's volleyball team faced an overnight bus ride late Friday night and then the Columbia Lions on Saturday. Traffic stalled the team en route to Manhattan, and the Crimson was forced to prepare hastily for its match...
...public liked it. When Berlin died last week at 101, he was the nation's most beloved songwriter, a Russian Jewish immigrant born Israel Baline, who rose from Cherry Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side to pride of place on Tin Pan Alley. Berlin's song is ended. But each time someone gazes up at blue skies, or wonders how deep is the ocean, or says it with music, his melodies linger...
...same. "The question is," he would ask rhetorically, "are you going to be a crabby old man or are you going to write another song?" He watched his parade of birthdays go by quietly, embarrassed by the fuss made by the world at large. Though fans gathered outside his Manhattan town house for a 100th birthday serenade, he was unimpressed with his longevity. "Age," he observed, "is no mark of merit unless you do something constructive with it." What he did was indisputable...
...process gave way to a rush of reality as three major banking companies set aside funds to bolster their loan-loss reserves, a move that will give them stiff deficits now but help insulate them from defaults in the future. Manufacturers Hanover added $950 million to its reserves, Chase Manhattan $1.15 billion, and J.P. Morgan $2 billion. To shore up its finances, Manny Hanny also agreed to sell CIT Group, its corporate- finance subsidiary, to Japan's Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank for $1.3 billion...
...landmark show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art traces the collaboration that, says curator William Rubin, was "the most passionate adventure in our century...