Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spotted Monica Lewinsky last week as she made her way quietly from Los Angeles to midtown Manhattan wearing a blond wig and dark glasses, it wasn't just her disguise at work. The girl we know so well, the one in the flirty beret on the Rose Garden rope line, is gone now, ground up by the machinery of investigation and fame. This new Monica is still warm, puts people at ease, pays attention to them when they speak, but she watches out for herself in a way she never had to before. The prosecutor whom she had viewed...
...something and see if it worked. "West Side Story" worked like no musical has before or since. And thanks to that silver screen, and its pageboy the VCR, we get to refresh our memories again and again. And it's a lot cheaper than a night in Manhattan...
...screen as a lonely reminder of what cinema can summon in intelligence, scope and power. That would be Decalogue, the 10-part cycle of short films that Krzysztof Kieslowski made for Polish TV in 1988-89. Long withheld from U.S. distribution, the series will be shown this week at Manhattan's Walter Reade Theater. A cinephile's fondest hope is that the series will soon travel to other venues or be released on videocassette. And not a moment too soon, for Decalogue may be the great film achievement of the past decade...
...Manhattan-based Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism, someone decided to create a time capsule to be opened at the millennium. A number of world figures were asked how things would be different in the year 2000. Israeli Prime Minister DAVID BEN-GURION predicted that the Soviet Union would be transformed into a "free and democratic" country and that there would be peace between Arabs and Israelis. Lyndon Johnson, then a Senator, saw the end of racial segregation in America. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT foresaw a Jewish President. Today, because the union is moving offices, it wants...
...about the magazine's future. One editor offered what may be the ultimate tribute to the solemnity of the moment: "I didn't hear anything snide today." Handicapping the odds on who the next editor might be, while gently dropping one's own name into the mix, quickly became Manhattan's favorite parlor game...