Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What a great idea.'" Browsing the Sharper Image, he found an array of massage-related products that sent his mind spinning. Thought he: "There's got to be a way to bring stress reduction to the masses." Eureka! Zanker opened the first Great American BackRub store in 1993 in Manhattan...
...emerging as a form of body maintenance. Americans spend $24 billion a year to cure back pain. GABR masseurs are licensed and receive company training to standardize treatment. A 10-min. back rub costs $14.95, a 45-min. version $49.95. Says Mary Trudel, 43, who works in a Manhattan public relations firm: "I eat lunch at my desk and come in here for a treat. After a 10-min. rub, I feel relaxed and rejuvenated...
...KLAUS G. PERLS and AMELIA PERLS These Manhattan art dealers and collectors gave at least $60 million worth of 20th century masterpieces by Picasso, Modigliani, Braque and Leger to New York City's Metropolitan Museum...
...allows the school to more than double its endowment. Fisher is chairman of the Morgan Stanley Group Inc. Levy is general partner of Odyssey Partners, an investment firm. Susan Soros, George's wife, is the director of Bard's Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, based in Manhattan...
...film is also the fullest expression of Allen's love affair with New York City. "I live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan," he says, "and I wanted to make a movie to share with other people the very warm and positive feelings I have for my neighborhood. I look around and I see rich kids going to these private schools and their chauffeurs take them, and I see husbands and wives come down at night, and he's got a tux on and she's got a gown, and they go out--it's a wonderful, romantic neighborhood...