Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Daisy (Claire Danes) is a self-conscious teen who attends a pretentious Manhattan private school and spends most of her time reading and day-dreaming. When she goes upstate to visit her beloved Nana (Jeanne Moreau), she immediately relaxes, talking endlessly about her crush on Ethan Wells (Jude Law), the popular and egoistic class jock. Afterwards, when Daisy reads a lustful love poem aloud in class, Ethan immediately recognizes to whom the composition is addressed. He, of course, pursues her and they soon become a couple. But when she confides to Ethan that her Nana is a Holocaust survivor...
Ultimately the third and most important act of One Night Stand comes off as completely implausible--despite Snipes's efforts to anchor the sketchy romance--because of the weak screenplay. In the opening sequence Figgis has Snipes directly addressing the camera as he walks through the streets of Manhattan on his way to see Charlie. This narrative device pops up sporadically in an effort to connect the sloppy narrative strands. The script was originally written by Joe Esterzhas (purveyor of such cinematic fool's gold as Basic Instinct and the infamous Showgirls), and it shows in some places (an especially...
...fiscal-austerity dilemma, because it required taking on minority-group leaders and civil libertarians who viewed these arrests as the harassment of African-American and Latino men. Giuliani did, and thereby won the hearts of outer-borough Democrats already hostile to Messinger's brand of upper-middle-class Manhattan liberalism. By making New Yorkers feel safer, he transformed the city's politics...
...months ago, Lee quit, and in the space of 24 hours went from corporate hotshot to math teacher on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She and her fiance Jason, 25, nest through weekends; a hot outing is likely to be a visit to a coffee bar with friends. This whole nesting thing, she says, "is about a simple question--What do I do that would make me happy?" She pauses as the sounds of ringing bells and laughing children rise. "I'm choosing a destination, and maybe it means I'll have fewer choices," she says. "But I think...
Sour grapes? Spilt milk? Some observation about what you have to do to make an omelet? Lunching at Restaurant Daniel, a four-star establishment in Manhattan ("I never cook anymore"), Guarnaschelli dismisses Corn's complaint: "I thought maybe she could deliver a great chapter. It wasn't what I could use. That's all there is to it." What about all the turmoil surrounding the preparation of the new Joy, most of which has been blamed on her? "I'm emotional, but I'm not difficult," she counters. "I'm dramatic, I'm intense, but people like to work with...