Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congressional seat opened up and pruzan began organizing a raines campaign. instead, raines took a job in the carter white house that included his first stint at OMB. when carter lost, raines went to work, making millions of dollars, first as a partner doing municipal finance at the manhattan investment house lazard freres. when the travel for that job became too much for a man with a young family, he accepted an offer to become vice chairman of the federal national mortgage association, known as fannie mae, the nation's largest investor in home mortgages. his family's rocky beginnings...
...what became a sideshow for the public remained a vital issue for the small group of people whose isolation she had broken. "Into the '80s," says Edward Cohen, a Manhattan writer working on a book about modern atheists, "people would hear her speak live or on the air, their mouths would hang open. It reassured them that they weren't the only ones on earth to feel this way." Says Orin ("Spike") Tyson, a friend and employee of O'Hair's who is now living, albeit embattled, in the house on Greystone Drive: "She went out in public and made...
...once managed, to join Badu in a remake of the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duet Your Precious Love for the sound track of the movie High School High. Then, a few weeks ago, Massenburg booked Badu for a four-night stand at the Soul Cafe, a chic new Manhattan soul-food restaurant co-owned by Malik Yoba, star of Fox's hip police drama, New York Undercover. Cool venue, hot singer. Word of mouth traveled fast; by the second night, crowds were being turned away...
This juxtaposition--what should be done set against the difficulty of actually doing it--underscores the comic principle that animates Hecht's first collection of fiction. Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and her architect husband have an apartment in Manhattan, a house in East Hampton and a summer rental on Nantucket. She can afford a small army of expensive people--psychiatrists, opticians, periodontists, endodontists, exercise trainers, floor renovators--to minister to her and her possessions' needs. Yet in spite of all this--or perhaps because of it--she is a psychological wreck...
...what should be done set against the difficulty of actually doing it underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and her architect husband have an apartment in Manhattan, a house in East Hampton and a summer rental on Nantucket. She can afford a small army of expensive people -- psychiatrists, opticians, periodontists, endodontists, exercise trainers, floor renovators -- to minister to her and her possessions? needs. Yet in spite of all this -- or perhaps because...