Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard class ring was long gone, pawned years before with a pair of cufflinks, when Robert E. Mack '47 spent his first day inside the Yellow Tin Box on the streets of Manhattan...
...awakened by a six o'clock phone call in a New York City hotel room. The call came from UPI, demanding that he interview former President Harry S. Truman, who was staying in the city at the Carlisle Hotel. Truman was known to take early-morning walks through the Manhattan streets...
Hokeyness, though, is a prime ingredient for a successful beach book, and it rears its head in another Grishamesque page turner: Likely to Die (Scribner; 393 pages; $24), a novel about a murdered neurosurgeon written by Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein. Where else will you find the line "In your dreams, Blondie. In your dreams...
...talk host Larry King, 63, swears off marriage every few years, but then hope triumphs over experience. His latest intended is Shawn Southwick, 37, who will become Mrs. King No. 7. They met in front of Tiffany in Manhattan, but now she is sporting a gumball-size diamond from Harry Winston, down the street...
...nature lovers were in the same place at the same time. Everyone wants to go to Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and a few other crown jewels. But mile-long waits at the gate and fistfights in parking lots can leave visitors longing for the comparative calm of midtown Manhattan...