Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provide companionship and hone the all-important social skills needed to play nicely--with humans and other canines. "She loves this place," says Michelle Bouchard, a New York City theater producer who regularly brings her dog to the day-care facility at the New York Dog Spa & Hotel in Manhattan--a growing business, with services ranging from pedicures to massage. "The irony is I got the dog so that my only child wouldn't be lonely. But now the dog's lonely when Alex goes to school...
...Number of minutes it takes couriers to travel three miles in Manhattan...
...that the experience led him to write the greatest love tragedy of all time, not the greatest love comedy." Instead of that final shot of the beach, he says, "I shouldn't be telling you these things, but in my first go I had a sort of ghostly Manhattan in my mind as she walked off--but that was a ghostly skyscraper...
...care whether the chaos they foresee is any part of God's plan. They are just sure something bad is coming. One of the best known is Ed Yourdon, a computer theorist whose book Time Bomb 2000 is in its 12th printing. Yourdon and his wife are moving from Manhattan to an adobe house near Taos, N.M., that has solar panels and soon a windmill to provide power. "There are so many things that can go wrong in Manhattan," he says. "[In Taos] I can control my environment." Near Boulder, Colo., Paloma O'Riley, an ex-Navy computer security specialist...
...promos for this show are much funnier than the product. While the best WB dramas (Felicity, Buffy and Dawson's Creek) shape teen angst into complex characters and sharp dialogue, Zoe doesn't get much beyond 10[cent] sitcom jokes. The idea of watching four non-vampire slaying Manhattan teenagers sounds appealing, but the show makes you realize how much of high school was down time, not worth committing to script. Zoe makes an effort with realistic teen dilemmas and some quirkiness, but the overall thinness leaves you wanting more Boy Meets World...