Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complex. Instead of battering at the gates of the white establishment, he seemed more interested in slipping under the portcullis and dancing his way up to the ramparts. After college and a stint in the Army, he was hired by the National Urban League to do welfare casework in Manhattan. He completed law school at night, moved to Washington and eventually took at stab at politics by managing Edward Kennedy's California campaign during the Senator's unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980. That led to several jobs with Kennedy, but Brown eventually left public service...
...even as a child, Brown learned to be comfortable in the white world. Unlike most blacks of his generation, he had little firsthand experience with white racism. He went to elementary school in midtown Manhattan, to high school in suburban White Plains and to college at Middlebury in Vermont, where he was the only black in his class--and, more tellingly, the first one in the local chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. His frat brothers liked him so much that they defied the whites-only charter to pledge him. As a newly commissioned Army second lieutenant en route...
...unfortunate," Jory says, "but the serious play seems less central to New York theater." And vice versa. A play like Keely and Du can be ignored in Manhattan and still receive some 300 productions in the U.S. and abroad. That's a loss for New York theater and a tribute to Jon Jory's ATL, the most nurturing midwife of new American drama. From now on, maybe Broadway should be called "off-Louisville...
...have to be made" because the complainant is hearing impaired. His boss, however, had a chance to stop him but didn't. Oscar-night parties are the Publishers Clearing House of the glossy magazines, with Vanity Fair throwing the premier bash in L.A. and Entertainment Weekly holding forth in Manhattan. George magazine entered the sweepstakes with its first party in Washington at the hilltop house of Peggy and Conrad Cafritz. Editor in chief John F. Kennedy Jr. attracted an intense power cluster, usurping for the moment the cluster power of General Colin Powell, who sat in the corner rooting...
RESIGNED. WILLIAM BRATTON, 48, New York City police commissioner; in Manhattan. Bratton is credited by many for a remarkable 27% drop in crime. But Gotham gossip long suggested that his boss, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, resented the commissioner's media profile (including a TIME cover) and independent nature. Bratton's successor, fire commissioner Howard Safir, is a Giuliani loyalist...