Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admiringly, "made the most twisted softcore adult movies of them all," later concocted the fake snuff film, Snuff. They specialized in bizarre ways of killing off sexy women (crossbow, electrified earrings, dildo switchblades). Exploitation? Or prophecy? Michael was decapitated in 1977 by the blade of a helicopter crashing atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building...
...road from New York City to Chicago to Washington. Almost from Day One, the talks threatened to break up over any one of the three most contentious issues: punitive damages, document disclosure and government oversight of tobacco products. The first signs of serious trouble struck April 21, when Manhattan attorney Herbert Wachtell, leading the squadron of tobacco-company lawyers, demanded, "There has to be an end to the vilification." When Harshbarger calmly responded that there would be no blanket immunity for tobacco interests, recalls a participant, "you could feel the air go out of the room...
...come from the Great White North to show the Great White Way how to do it. Unlike traditional Broadway production organizations, Drabinsky's Toronto-based Livent Inc. not only owns theaters (six of them, open or being renovated, in Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and on 42nd Street in Manhattan) but also seeks to fill them with homegrown shows that Drabinsky initiates from scratch. Livent uses profits from long-running road companies to finance new works, which may run a year or more in cities like Toronto before going to New York. Broadway thus becomes just one cog in a worldwide theatrical...
...famous libel case--psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against the New Yorker's Janet Malcolm--turned in part on whether an interview took place over goat cheese at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or breakfast at Malcolm's Manhattan home. Details matter, especially when they wound real people. Reich is safe: his meals--lunch, breakfast, whatever--were with public figures. Not so the reader who thought Reich was being true to what happened...
...very heart of the svelte new company that Araskog says he wants to create. Recently ITT sold five Sheraton hotels for $200 million, without competitive bidding, to FelCor Suite Hotels, the largest owner of the Embassy Suite hotels. Then it quietly put the luxe St. Regis hotel, off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, on the block, even though New York hoteliers stand to rake in profits for years. "ITT management is willing to do anything to keep their jobs," is the blunt assessment of David Wolfe, who follows the lodging industry for the investment firm Oppenheimer & Co. "They...