Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front of us are a pair of normal-looking guys in blue jeans and fleeces. One decides that he is restless. Unfortunately, there isn't much to do in midtown Manhattan at four in the morning. Fortunately, the one option that does exist is exotic dancing. Across the street an enticing neon sign announces "The Playpen." Our friend decides to check out the toddlers...
Living off-campus--in anything larger than a closet--is not a popular option. You would need the salary of a CEO to live in surrounding Santa Clara County, the most expensive to place to live in the country. Yes, it costs more than Manhattan...
...decides to get out as well. ("Disorientation: loss of the East," as he notes several times.) But this exodus considerably saps the narrative vigor of Rushdie's novel. On their arc toward pop immortality, Ormus and Vina must inevitably pass through London in the mid-'60s and Manhattan in the '70s, already over-storied places and times about which Rai (and Rushdie) can find little new or interesting to add. When fictionalized versions of Rudolf Nureyev and Andy Warhol start popping up, an inspired fiction dwindles toward gossip...
When first-time filmmaker Keiko Ibi claimed her Oscar last month for this documentary short, she charmed audiences with her unvarnished manner. Clearly, she had a similar effect on her subjects--a group of now single senior citizens living on Manhattan's Lower East Side--who speak with touching candor here about love and loss in the years when middle age is a fond memory. Ibi never patronizes these men and women; she just allows them to wish--and be wistful...
...watch Momma's Little Girl, Jacqueline, pass through. We watch the Playpen patron pass through. It's our turn. At this point we have stood on a Manhattan sidewalk for five hours in the freezing rain and have accomplished absolutely nothing. If Aaron and Josh are turned away, our entire odyssey will be for naught. Our bouts of pneumonia--which we already feel coming on--will be in the name of no higher cause. In short, we will have to return to Harvard, cold, wet and beaten...