Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your dining hall is spotted one day with business suits eating waffle fries, and your favorite tutor is offering a fourteen-part course in how to be a tasty Recruit. Your neighbors already have apartments in Manhattan and 401ks. You do not know what 401k means...
...back on the shelf. Kirsten Bakis' supposition in Lives of the Monster Dogs (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 291 pages; $23) is that in the year 2008, a tribe of large dogs, surgically and genetically altered, with prosthetic hands and voice boxes and with the intelligence of humans, arrives in Manhattan. The dogs walk erect, using canes, and wear costumes patterned after military uniforms and ball gowns of 19th century Prussia...
Harvey Weinstein has his own definition of independence. "It has always meant independent of the seven major studios," says Harvey, "and that's how we operate. Disney is our big daddy or rich uncle. Basically, they're our bank. You can say Disney or you can say Chase Manhattan." Miramax has the freedom to run its business so long as it works within budget guidelines and doesn't buy movies rated NC-17. "A hundred-percent freedom," says Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "They're completely autonomous. And they should be. They keep their costs down and their ideas up. They...
...disconcerting size and visionary intensity. Its traces were found after his death by his landlord, a photographer named Nathan Lerner, who preserved them. Some of them--63 watercolors--are on view through April 27 in a show curated by Stephen Prokopoff at the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan...
DIED. MARJORIE REYNOLDS, 75, actress known for portraying Bing Crosby's love interest in Holiday Inn and William Bendix's long-suffering wife in The Life of Riley TV series; in Manhattan Beach, California...