Search Details

Word: manhattanization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Larrabee died two weeks after being struck by a car near her home at West 20th Street in Manhattan, her family said. She was unconscious from the time of the accident until her death at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architect Eleanor Larrabee Dies In New York at 74 | 10/2/1997 | See Source »

...deal with the many consequences of severe burns, a growing number of major hospitals have established burn centers, staffed by the medical equivalent of police swat teams, that accommodate every need of critically injured burn victims. America's busiest burn unit is at Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and consists of some 100 doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and dieticians who treat 1,300 patients a year in the unit's 46-bed facility. "The name of the game in burns is teamwork," says Dr. Roger Yurt, the unit's director since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO HELL AND BACK | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, means sexual one-upmanship. Precocious Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci) insists on wearing a Nixon mask during foreplay with Mikey Carver and goads his shy younger brother Sandy (Adam Hann-Byrd) into a game of mutual exhibitionism. Wendy's brother Paul (Tobey Maguire) goes to a Manhattan party where, once again, a pretty girl treats him as just a friend. For the adults the big social event is a Key Party. The men drop their car keys into a bowl, the women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships are formed--a surer route to public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: LEFT OUT IN THE COLD | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

Sounds like a progressive private girls' academy on the Upper East Side of Manhattan or a boarding school in New Hampshire? Not quite. This is the Young Women's Leadership School, and it is a public school in East Harlem. Opened last year in an effort to boost girls' confidence and to provide a supportive and challenging academic environment, the experimental charter school on 106th Street should be reveling in its success. The school admitted 55 seventh-grade girls for the year 1996-97 and it re-opened its doors this September to 165 girls in the seventh through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single-sex Schools and the Spirit of Title IX | 9/25/1997 | See Source »

This fall Kline will return to the theater. He will take the title role in David Hare's adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov at Lincoln Center, a 10-minute cab ride from his apartment. As we made our way through Manhattan traffic one recent afternoon, I asked Kline if there had ever been a movie role he wished he'd been offered, foolishly imagining that he might occasionally fantasize a more Harrison Ford-like career trajectory. "When I saw John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons," Kline says, "I have to admit I felt some envy about that part. I went right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CLOSET HAMLET | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Previous | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | Next