Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...squishy center. To the disgust of the Goldwater faction, he had spent much of the 1960 campaign courting Nelson Rockefeller, the lustrous epitome of the party's East Coast liberals. The last straw came on the eve of the G.O.P. Convention. At a meeting in Rockefeller's Manhattan apartment (read: Satan's throne), Nixon agreed to liberalize the G.O.P. platform, in part by adding an unequivocal civil rights plank. Goldwater compared the meeting to Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. For the final insult, Nixon chose Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a pedigreed symbol of the Eastern...
...court papers, Culkin has asked to be allowed to spend $2 million of his estimated $17 million trust fund on an apartment for his family. With legal fees mounting and Mac and his siblings not acting, the Culkins will soon be unable to pay the rent on their three Manhattan apartments (one for Mac, one for mom Patricia Bentrup and five kids, one for dad Kit). Mom likes the plan; Dad doesn't. A draft of Home Alone III is reportedly nearly finished, but maybe...
Both "Big Paul" Castellano (Richard Sarafian), famously whacked by Gotti soldiers outside a Manhattan steak house in 1985, and Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano (William Forsythe), whose turncoat chattiness with the feds ultimately landed Gotti his life sentence, are portrayed as the real evildoers here. Why? Because they were Michael Milken greedy. While Gotti's silk-and-cashmere flamboyance may have embodied the underworld side of '80s excess, Castellano and Gravano were, in this film's view, the true moral lepers because they threw around terms like "joint venture" and "bottom line" and believed in the coldhearted notion that...
...they might a car wreck or a Peter Greenaway movie: they know it might repel, but they are forced to have a look. For two years Bushnell's column "Sex and the City" has appeared regularly in the New York Observer--a salmon-colored weekly paper doted on by Manhattan's media elite--offering bleakly funny reportage on dating rituals among the city's most physically and financially privileged. Now 25 of her pieces have been compiled in a book, also titled Sex and the City (Atlantic Monthly Press; 228 pages; $21), which should serve to dissuade any single person...
...Kaplan's Mahler fixation extends to actually stepping up on a podium and conducting the Second Symphony. Since his debut at Manhattan's Lincoln Center 14 years ago with the American Symphony Orchestra, rented for the occasion, he has led the lone, magnificent work in his repertoire nearly 50 times, with 31 different orchestras...