Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservative Washington think tank that Bennett co-directs, got a taste of Bennett's attitude when Forstmann tried to recruit another Master of the Universe, Julian Robertson, to support the think tank. Forstmann invited Robertson to meet Bennett, Jack Kemp and others from Empower America at his home in Manhattan. Things started out cordially, but before long, a dispute broke out over abortion, with Robertson challenging Bennett's call for more restrictions on the practice. Bennett showed no deference to a potential benefactor. At one point, as Bennett was arguing, Forstmann kept trying to interrupt: "Bill...Bill...Bill..." To which...
...playing in three competitions might be too much, Hingis, whose game is ahead of her English, replied, "Well, I am young, and, as I say, I enjoy to play tennis. But I will think about to stay overnight here, so I don't have to go back [to Manhattan]." Then, as she does after every reply, Hingis laughed...
...with it, this will be his biggest fall ever. Having built up a $478 million men's clothing and fragrance business, Hilfiger is invading the women's field with a line of casual clothes and a floral fragrance, both called Tommy Girl. Last week Bloomingdale's in Manhattan celebrated with a wall of windows full of well-cut, preppie-style separates, many emblazoned with the Hilfiger logo or a giant H--and that's not for Harvard. The store held an autograph party, as if the designer were Michael Jordan or Luciano Pavarotti. Lean, perky, with his trademark jack...
When we landed, we drove to our apartment in Manhattan. I had a legal brief I had to get out to a client. Dick's a faster typist, so he typed it up for me. While we were in the apartment, that's when the President, the Vice President and the First Lady called. They had been trying to reach us in Connecticut...
...seedy Manhattan hotel lobby in 1928, Hughie is an old-fashioned tale--even the clock on the wall ticks in waltz tempo. And Erie Smith (Pacino) is an old-fashioned gambler, a loser out of Damon Runyon. For Erie, horseplaying is a sacred vocation. "I'd rather sleep in the same stall with old Man o' War," he says, "than make the whole damn Follies." Down on his luck, he has the sour, insistent patter of a guy without dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk...