Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first week in Manhattan, three serial killers were arrested. It's the kind of news you don't know how to take--is it reassuring that these people were apprehended or terrifying that they were out there to begin with? The New York Times took the former attitude, dutifully reporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani's boats about the crack police work of the NYPD. Once crucial detail especially worked to Giuliani's advantage: John J. Royster, the man who confessed to a brutal beating in Central Park and a murder on Park Avenue, was caught because he was fingerprinted during...
...guys have chased Vanessa Williams into the reptile house of a Manhattan zoo, when Arnold Schwarzenegger shows up. He fires a round into the alligator case, breaking the glass and freeing dozens of killer creatures. They eat most of the villains like canapes, but one of the beasts heads for our star. It's about to devour him when he blasts the gator to leathereens. "You're luggage," Arnold observes...
...plane was swooping down over the waters that encircle Manhattan, I came to a decision. Now it's true that everything seems different when you are soaring over the earth at hundreds of miles per hour, but here's what I thought. Harvard has ordained, and I have come to agree, that college is not the time for vocational studies. It is a time to think, and to learn how to think. It is a time to explore and examine and experiment and discover the world and yourself and the ways those two entities interact...
...death while opening her dry-cleaning shop on Park Avenue. On June 14, John Royster was questioned regarding the Park Avenue attack and subsequently confessed to having been responsible for that attack, the Central Park incident, an additional attack in Yonkers on June 7 and a beating in uptown Manhattan on June...
...they file into studio 8g at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, audience members are treated to the sort of freebie they would not be given had they ordered tickets to the Richard Bey Show. Resting on each of the 175 seats are a pint of milk (low fat) and a snack-size package of Drake's cakes. This is the Rosie O'Donnell Show, and the gimmick is apt. The actress and comic, part brassy New Yorker, part perky den mother, has come to TV to serve up the daytime talk show as comfort food...