Word: manhattanization
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...Avant-garde art is hard; dying is easy. In 1991, languishing with a fatal bout of AIDS in a Manhattan hospital, the lifelong kvetch was suddenly buoyant. The longtime starving artist told playwright Ron Tavel, "It?s the best food I?ve had in my life." His mind has sustenance too: dreams of his eternal movie goddess, Maria (not Mario) Montez...
...didn’t end up writing the music for the 2003 Hasty Pudding Theatricals show, “It’s a Wonderful Afterlife.” The morning before he had to submit his original score, the then-freshman was frantically composing in a midtown Manhattan McDonald’s, still recovering from a long night on the town. The Pudding’s music director had given him the lyrics only a week earlier, but Wang had not let the deadline spoil his weekend plans. “The stuff I brought...
...past week on a forced march to the G.O.P. And the bayonet at my back isn't in the hands of the Republicans; the Democrats are the bullyboys. Such lions of the left as Barbara Ehrenreich, the writers at Salon and much of the Upper West Side of Manhattan have made it abundantly clear to me that I ought to start packing my bags. I'm not leaving, but sometimes I wonder: When did I sign up to be the beaten wife of the Democratic Party...
...housing projects--arguing instead for restoring old buildings, creating new ones of similar scale and mixing residents and merchants in a happily messy universe of neighborhoods. During a 12-year battle with powerful city planner Robert Moses, whose bid to build a highway through her former neighborhood of lower Manhattan she helped defeat, Jacobs was arrested for storming the podium at a hearing. She said, "We had been ladies and gentlemen and only got pushed around...
...Global warming must be addressed in the same way the U.S. set up the Manhattan Project to beat Hitler at creating the atom bomb. If that was a problem of national security, this is a problem of global security concerning all nations. Hence an equivalent international commitment is needed, instead of bickering among developing and industrialized nations and gimmicks like carbon trading that do not address the scale of the problem. All nations must act decisively. Peter Priyantha Dias Nugegoda, Sri Lanka...