Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paris designer Marie-Claude Lalique has seen this frenzy close up. When Lalique signed crystal ware and bottles of perfume at Manhattan's tony Bergdorf Goodman store last week, shoppers snapped up nearly 100 items, including $2,750 perfumes and a $4,700 vase. "In two hours we did the kind of business we normally do in six months," said an awed spokeswoman for Lalique's company...
...sellers don't see anything out there that could take the icing off their cake, and they continue to expand. At the Ferragamo men's and women's shop in Manhattan's Trump Tower, demand for such items as $825 zip-top bags and $2,260 leather jackets has grown so brisk that customers may purchase no more than 10 in any one category such as coats or pairs of shoes. Perhaps they'll just have to think of it as sharing the wealth...
...vets know the drill: the rash of press interviews, the upsurge in people stopping you on the street to sing your praises. But Lane, who plays the flamboyantly effeminate half of a gay couple in The Birdcage, has to contend with something other movie stars don't. Stopped in Manhattan traffic in a taxi one day last week, he noticed a rough-looking van driver staring down at him. The fellow turned to his friend, then leaned out the window and yelled, "Hey, faggot...
...seems ironic that it was the Clintons themselves who set this book in motion. On March 25, 1994, Susan Thomases, the Manhattan lawyer who is a close friend and adviser to the Clintons, came to my office about a matter she had said she couldn't discuss over the phone. After some pleasantries, Thomases described a White House besieged by allegations ranging from the murder of Vincent Foster to irregularities in Whitewater to obstruction of justice. The President and First Lady had concluded that the best way to clear their names was to open themselves to a reputable journalist. Thomases...
DIED. MEYER SCHAPIRO, 91, art critic, historian and lecturer whose insights into the broad social context of everything from Romanesque sculpture to modern painting influenced scholars, curators and creators of art from the 1930s to the present; in Manhattan...