Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, a radio broadcaster called him "the Yankee Clipper," a tribute to the way he sailed so majestically while pursuing fly balls across the green expanses of center field. His batting skill won him the sobriquet "Joltin' Joe." Meanwhile, the young man from Fisherman's Wharf was acquiring a Manhattan polish. He took up tailored suits and the high life at Toots Shor's nightclub, where the habitues treated him like a god who had inexplicably deigned to join their mortal company. He dated beautiful women, including actress Dorothy Arnold, whom he later married and with whom...
Kureishi's ambitions and concerns seem modest, however, when held up against those of John Taylor. Though Taylor's milieu is as precious as Kureishi's--middle- to upper-class professionals and intellectuals, this time of the Manhattan variety--Falling, about Taylor's own divorce, manages to embrace, if not resolve, some of the questions gripping many Western societies: Is staying married always good? Is divorce always bad? What's best for the children? How, in the face of personal unhappiness, does one set one's moral compass...
Gandolfini discovered the stage after spending years as a Manhattan bouncer and nightclub manager. When a friend took him to an acting class in the late '80s, he was left so unsettled and challenged by a focusing exercise that involved threading a needle that he knew he had to return. "I'd also never been around actors before," says Gandolfini, "and I said to myself, 'These people are nuts; this is kind of interesting.'" After touring Scandinavia in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire ("I remember lots of old people falling asleep in dinner theaters," he says), Gandolfini immersed...
...recent fashion trade bazaar in Manhattan, designer Shoshanna Lonstein was giving the hard sell to a group of potential clients. Sporting one of her new fall designs--a strapless wool tube dress--she looked herself up and down, fidgeted with the top of her dress and began, "I've made my clothes to allow for a woman's body, if you have one." Said a buyer from Miami, giggling: "Like you certainly do!" While the crowd burst out laughing, someone in the back whispered, "Hey, isn't she the one that used to go with Jerry Seinfeld?" The answer...
Raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Lonstein began designing clothes out of necessity: she made her own bras and bathing suits when she had trouble finding any to fit her ample breasts and pencil-thin lower body. "I love clothing more than anything else," she confided over hot cider at a neighborhood lounge. "I almost walk through stores like one would walk through museums." After graduating from U.C.L.A. in 1997 with a dual degree in history and art history, she apprenticed at a lingerie company, where she learned that "it takes 38 pieces to construct a bra." Then...