Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deemed extremely good--and eventually accepted a trial position as a basso with the Manhattan opera company...
...more than four times the 2% to 3% that most grocers bag. Having tinkered with the concept for a couple of years, Romano is taking EatZi's national. Already in Dallas and Houston, EatZi's opened last month in Atlanta and will stock shelves in Westbury, N.Y., and Manhattan by the end of this year. "Women come in and say, 'Thank you. I never have to cook again,'" says Romano. "And men come in and say, 'Thank you. I never have to marry again...
Lillian Ross, who has written for the New Yorker since 1945 and should be in The Guinness Book of World Records for conducting the longest office romance, was in town last week, seated at her regular table in her favorite Manhattan restaurant, La Caravelle, where she wore a dark green Armani pantsuit, drank San Pellegrino water and filled us in on reaction to her new book, Here but Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and the New Yorker (Random House; 240 pages; $25), which has had most of the New York literary world buzzing for the past several weeks...
...despite the taste of glamour, Meili has come full circle--from security guard to player in a vast historical drama and back to security guard. Pale, baby-faced and unremarkable in his navy-and-gray uniform, he spends most days in a Manhattan office building "just standing," he says. "Sometimes I give directions to the elevator, or I tell people to sign in. It gives me a lot of time to think. That's what I do all day long. I think about the Holocaust. Sometimes I go crazy." Back home in New Jersey, Giuseppina Meili is baffled...
...hang around for the other actors in a scene to finish up. But in a film career that spanned some 40 years, he gave an impressive number of unforgettable performances. On the Town had good sport casting the kid who used to jump the Hoboken ferry to sneak into Manhattan. From Here to Eternity, which won him an Oscar, put his stalled career back into overdrive and led, through rumor and myth, to a memorable subplot in The Godfather...