Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lobby of the 92nd Street Y, on the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan, a middle-aged couple stood in line last week, speculating on the motives of the political celebrity they had come to hear. "I'm telling you, he's pushing an agenda," the man said in an agitated voice. His wife calmly replied, "He's pushing his book, that's what he's pushing." The man considered her words and shook his head. "You think Newt Gingrich isn't pushing an agenda? A leopard doesn't change his spots...
Martin McDonagh sits cross-legged on a bed, giving a visiting journalist the only comfortable chair in the ill-furnished brownstone apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side that has been the playwright's home for the past two months. A TV set, perched uncertainly on a table in the corner, flickers soundlessly. When not at rehearsals, the London native has been giving himself a crash course in American TV. Tops on his list of discoveries: South Park and the fights on Jerry Springer...
...uncap a beer or roll his own joint or bother to seduce. His followers are driven by desperate hunger. In the novel's best scene, one of its last, Esther has been terribly hurt in a car crash. Luke appears and orders an ambulance, and they rush into Manhattan toward a hospital. But someone, probably the ambulance driver, has phoned a radio station. As the news gets out, cars fall in behind the ambulance, then ahead. Progress slows, then stops. Luke steps out, climbs on the ambulance, shouts for a clear path. "One song!" yells a fan. "Oh, pleeeeease...
...going elsewhere, Barro reportedly will becompensated with $300,000 per year in salary, plusa $55,000 post at Columbia for his wife and aplace for his son in a Manhattan private school.In addition, the Times reported that Columbia"eased out" the prior tenant of an apartment theBarros were interested in and renovated it beforeoffering it to Barro at half the market rate...
...immediately attracted me," he explains. "Not everything goes through the brain; some things go straight through the heart." Elbaz's clothes--pink and white dresses of layered tulle with dainty streams of sequins, billowy-sleeved jackets and Capri pantsuits--are so achingly beautiful that when the designer came to Manhattan to launch the line at a small show for select shoppers and members of the fashion press, at least one enraptured audience member actually began to tear...