Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week when The X-Files' DAVID DUCHOVNY (instantly recognizable despite the cheesy fake mustache) was spotted at New York City's marriage-license bureau. But the trail had gone cold by the next night, when the star wed actress TEA LEONI of NBC's The Naked Truth at lower Manhattan's Grace Church. Just a handful of family members attended the paparazzo-free ceremony. In January the two stars had begun a commuter romance between his show's set in Vancouver, B.C., and hers in Los Angeles. "We are thrilled," the sneaky groom told Daily News columnist Liz Smith...
David Blaine desperately wants to be famous. After spotting Al Pacino in a Manhattan restaurant, the 24-year-old magician goes right over to introduce himself and do a card trick--but before he can start, Pacino brushes him off. Undaunted, Blaine tries again a few minutes later, sliding a deck out of his jeans pocket. "Pick a card," he says, quickly persuading the actor not only to count out 10 other cards but to sit on them as well. When the chosen card somehow "jumps" to his stack, Pacino pounds his fist on the table. "That is a beautiful...
Tamagotchi, the latest toy craze in Japan, arrived last week in a Brink's truck at Manhattan's FAO Schwarz. The egg-shaped pet chick has a virtual life right on a key chain, where it's hatched, lives and dies--virtually. When it beeps, the owner is supposed to pet it by pressing its buttons. The chick even leaves virtual droppings to be cleaned up. It sells on Japan's black market for $500, but the suggested U.S. retail price is $15. The profits are real...
Indeed, Halmi, who runs his company out of Manhattan and divides his time between his town house there, his estate in Kenya and a home in Marbella, rarely even spends the night in Los Angeles when he has business in that city. "I don't want to have breakfast and everybody is talking about deals," he says...
...wonder, then, that there is such anger towards those who try to get labor on the cheap. This is the basis of Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger's recent attack on New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's workfare program. Messinger called Giuliani's program "chattel ownership and indentured servitude." Her attack turns on this second component of labor's value; she laments in the Forward that not enough of the participants received real jobs...