Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very rich, very unhappy and entirely unfulfilled. He split with his original business partner and his wife. He acknowledged his relationship with his children was damaged, calling it "the biggest regret of my life." He became reclusive, living out of a small, sparsely furnished apartment in Manhattan. One year he lost money. He said later, "I underwent a serious change in my personality during that period. There was a large element of guilt and shame in my emotional makeup." Therapy helped, but philanthropy was the cure...
...really do feel the need to spend more time on reflection. It takes a lot of effort, and I am frankly stumped on some issues." He is married to Susan Weber Soros, a former art magazine publisher who runs Bard College's respected Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, in Manhattan, which is partly funded by her husband. They have two preteenage children...
DIED. NORRIS BRADBURY, 88, top physicist and for 25 years the head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory weapons-research center; in Los Alamos, N.M. A veteran of the Manhattan Project, where he helped assemble the first atom bomb, he built Los Alamos into a formidable facility that developed the first thermonuclear weapons...
...weeks before his big show, Brooks told TIME that he had played Manhattan only once before, early in his career and was eager to return. He was also eager for some big-time publicity: his biggest album, No Fences (1990), sold more than 13 million copies, but his latest, Fresh Horses (1995), sold just 4 million. The Central Park concert, which was free (the $11 million bill was footed by Brooks and HBO, which aired the show) was originally conceived as a mega-infomercial for his new CD, Sevens, which had a release conveniently...
...York the Vanity Fair piece stung the tabloids by portraying the Manhattan press corps as a bunch of cowering wusses afraid to follow up gossip that the mayor was having an affair with his communications director. The city's tabloids rose to the bait, producing three days of buzz about the state of Hizzoner's marriage and alleged philandering before it dawned on them that perhaps the reason no detailed story had appeared earlier was because there wasn't one: the principals weren't talking, and no one else was in a position to really know. The old excuse used...