Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leah Hochbaum giggles a lot for a radical fanatic. But the 26-year-old mother of two from New York City possesses a will of steel and a boundless faith that she is obeying God's commandment. When she heard Manhattan Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach say it was a Jew's duty to reclaim all the land of biblical Israel, she believed, and she came, not just to the Holy Land but to the very heart of the struggle, to the West Bank city of Hebron. After a year in the confines of the Avraham Avinu quarter, one of six minuscule...
...Competition for down-market customers and the profits they generate is intensifying among big mortgage providers like GE Capital, Norwest Financial, KeyCorp, NationsBank and Chase Manhattan, not to mention heavily advertised smaller outfits like the Money Store (Dial 1-800-LOAN-YES). The total for sub-prime mortgages--a figure that is growing at twice the rate of conventional mortgages--is expected to exceed $120 billion this year. Another blistering market: sub-prime cash for new and used cars. Ford Motor Co.'s Associates Corp.; Mercury Finance, based in Lake Forest, Illinois; Credit Acceptance Corp. of Southfield, Michigan; and other...
...Pacino Richard places its director-star front and center, performing scenes from the play, quizzing Brit theater luminaries and Manhattan street dwellers on the relevance of Shakespeare's poetry and the ability of American actors to speak it--trying to get a handle on the murderous Godfather of the House of York. In a way, the film is a high-minded remake of Pacino's Heat: he's the sleuth chasing down a charismatic killer. It's also naive, wildly self-indulgent and weirdly mesmerizing. While Pacino wrangles the text with such fellow seekers as Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder...
...innocent aura coexists, in person, with a more knowing and world-weary affect (after all, she was raised by artist parents in a loft in Manhattan's SoHo district and has been acting professionally since age 6). In one breath she confidently states a sophisticated opinion of Juliet ("more one-dimensional than people might expect") and in the next worries about how her looks are discussed in the press...
BORN: June 2, 1948, Brooklyn, N.Y. EDUCATION: Marymount Manhattan College, B.A., 1970 FAMILY: Husband, John; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Public official; customer-service representative POLITICAL CAREER: Jefferson County clerk and recorder, 1991- ADDRESS: 16399 South Golden Road, Golden...