Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HERE, NOT NOW Free expression has taken some hard knocks lately. Protests caused a Manhattan theater to temporarily cancel a production of Terrence McNally's new play, which reportedly features a depiction of a gay Christ figure. In Japan, school officials cut a John Updike short story about three bathing suit-clad girls from a textbook, saying it would disrupt classes. In South Carolina and Tennessee, high schools canceled Indigo Girls, top, concerts because of offensive lyrics. And in Alabama, a minister banned the singing of Stevie Nicks' Landslide at a baccalaureate service, saying she is a witch and Satan...
...Corbusier loved Manhattan. He loved its newness, he loved its Cartesian regularity, above all he loved its tall buildings. He had only one reservation, which he revealed on landing in New York City in 1935. The next day, a headline in the Herald Tribune informed its readers that the celebrated architect FINDS AMERICAN SKYSCRAPERS MUCH TOO SMALL. Le Corbusier always thought big. He once proposed replacing a large part of the center of Paris with 18 sixty-story towers; that made headlines...
...Larrabee joined a New York architecture firm run by Charles H. Warner Jr. She was named an associate at WBTL Architects in Manhattan...
Nearing the completion of his fifth book Big Trouble, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author J. Anthony Lukas '55 committed suicide in his Manhattan apartment June...
Police reported that the Leverett House sophomore was struck by a subway train in midtown Manhattan. Fitzpatrick had been on a voluntary leave of absence at the time, and was planningto return to Harvard in the spring, according toLeverett House Senior Tutor JudithMurciano-Goroff...