Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wedding gifts aren't considered campaign contributions, which is just as well for the second family. Karenna Gore, 23, has become engaged to Andrew Schiff, a Manhattan doctor. Karenna's father-in-law-elect is a Republican, but her betrothed supports the home team. No juicy details of how they met have been released, but the happy nuptials are in November...
...success of Riverdance and its spin-off has been remarkable. Lord of the Dance began its U.S. tour this month with 13 sold-out performances at Manhattan's 5,854-seat Radio City Music Hall. Having made its debut in Dublin last June, it reached New York City via London, New Zealand and Australia. Riverdance now maintains two touring companies, and producers are putting together a third. The show will return to the U.S. in September after a string of sold-out performances last year. Riverdance the CD won a Grammy last month and remains the top-selling album...
...city. We do not consider ourselves fundamentally so different from Duluthites or Sioux Fallsians or Fargo-Moorheaders. We all eat the same brand of corn flakes, and one size sock fits all. However, in Minneapolis, the 42nd largest American city, there are people who imagine it to be the Manhattan of the Midwest, the Paris of the Prairie. This is embarrassing to us St. Paulites, like knowing a small man with a bad toupee who thinks he is Tom Cruise. What can you say to him, other than "Stop that...
...Secretary of State Breckinridge Long. Those in the arts had no special exemptions, of course; but by a combination of stubbornness, string pulling, blind luck and the help of a tiny number of devotees and friends in the U.S., some did get through, settling for the most part in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Among them, from Paris, were Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Lipchitz and the core group of Surrealists who went to New York City: Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy, Andre Masson and Roberto Matta. From Germany, Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters and the Dada collagist John Heartfield...
...enjoyed, one is apt to suppose that their emigre life (especially in America) was secure, but actually it depended on stipends, teaching jobs and ad hoc support arranged by dealers--many of them emigres themselves, like Curt Valentin--and by a few museum officials, notably Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Visas, stamps and bureaucratic routines took on a disproportionate significance, as they always do for the marginal. After the U.S. entered the war in 1941, the foreignness of some artists counted against them even more: the Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz fell under suspicion of being...