Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Playing for the Knicks was a standing invitation to the round-the-clock bash that was Manhattan in the late 1960s and early '70s, but Bradley did not partake. He kept his head in his books. "If you asked him a direct question, he'd answer you," says former teammate Willis Reed. "But in terms of volunteering information? That was not Bill." When he met Ernestine, in 1969, the attraction sprang in part from the fact that she didn't care what he did for a living. They were wed in a Palm Beach ceremony that...
...brand of hotel hipness. Trying to stay ahead of the curve he started, Schrager is adding 10 hostelries to the five he had been running. "It's a very capital-intensive business, which doesn't encourage many new ideas," says Schrager, sitting in his new, whitewashed loft offices on Manhattan's West Side, wearing (what else?) white pants and shirt. "But hotels are not just places to sleep. You're supposed to have fun there...
...broke new ground when he decided that a "point of view" is more important than standardization in a hotel. It's been his stock-in-trade since 1984, when he and his late partner Steve Rubell (whose family today runs its own hotels in Miami) opened Morgans in midtown Manhattan. It was both a professional and a personal reclamation project. The two spent slightly more than a year in prison for tax evasion following the collapse of their disco empire; soon after, they ventured into a more respectable branch of the hospitality industry. "People expected to see go-go dancers...
This is the era of the long-distance rate war. Flipping channels on an average night of television viewing, it seems the ads are everywhere, each offering a different plan and a different great deal. In fields, across the Golden Gate, and in the streets of Manhattan, giant coins rumble through the landscape announcing the deals...
Northeastern will also enter Ohiri Field limping from its wounds. Junior defender Mark Hutchinson is out for the season after tearing knee ligaments in a Sept. 18 game at Manhattan. Hutchinson had never missed a start prior to that injury...