Word: manhattanization
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...fussy nor overwrought. A few performance elements and design cues punctuate the body: air intakes on the hood, side vents and an R badge on the rear, emblazoned like Superman's S. But the car's elegance speaks for itself. As I pulled out of a parking space in Manhattan, a man in a wheelchair nodded in approval and remarked, "Go ahead, hit me." He was only half-joking...
What do I stand for? Besides following, I mean. Universal health care, definitely. Or if not universal, then at least darn good coverage for any and all female candidates from Manhattan who have straight dark hair, because what if I get hit by a bus driven by someone else in the race? That reminds me, I also stand for transportation reform. For instance, I firmly believe in passing legislation that makes it mandatory for the No. 6 subway to stop a block or two closer to my residence. Also, why do we have to have both North Dakota and South...
...9/11, and because, for the Academy, all Oscar politics is local. Crash proved that last year. It was the ultimate L.A. movie - a drama about car violence on the interracial highway - while United 93 is the ultimate New York movie. Its shot of a passenger jet cruising into a Manhattan skyscraper pretty much defines pornography (in the bad sense) for Gothamites. But the nation's largest city has little clout in the Academy membership, or in the industry's imagery. New York might as well be New Delhi...
...Manhattan cake maker, Bill Schutz of Creative Cakes, who's been in business since 1979, said he used to make kids a simple Snoopy-shaped cake, but "now it's a Candyland cake, complete with castle, game board and pieces." Schutz's cakes can run parents...
...Breakfast at Tiffany's set Hepburn on her 60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned Mayfair Lady. Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in Charade, Paris When It Sizzle and How to Steal a Million: kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in The Children's Hour, Two for the Road and Wait Until Dark...