Word: manhattanization
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...call Tuttle a Beverly Hills car dealer is to call Averell Harriman (one of his predecessors) a Manhattan day trader. Before becoming one of the most successful business leaders in the country, Tuttle served in President Reagan’s White House for seven years—four of them as director of presidential personnel, which put him at the very center of national decision-making on the full range of foreign and domestic issues...
...where you’re trying to figure yourself out through trial and error,” said Megan McCafferty, the chick-lit novelist whose work was “internalized” by Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan. McCafferty, who spoke to her fans at a public library in Manhattan yesterday, was referring not to Viswanathan but Jessica Darling, the Ivy League protagonist of her popular book series. “I wanted Jessica to make a lot of mistakes,” McCafferty said, “so that she could learn from them...
...director and screenwriter Paul Greengrass tells the tale, already becoming an integral part of the American psyche, of a few short hours on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Sitting in my seat before the movie started, I was already tense. As a resident of lower Manhattan, I, like other New Yorkers, felt deeply touched by that day. Indeed, I had found it hard to even watch the trailer online. At the heart of “United 93” is the story of the passengers and the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, which was aimed...
...first chapter, we’re in present day Manhattan. At a gala in the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrating a “Treasures of the Vatican” exhibit, four horsemen, swords and all, emerge from Central Park to nab one of the previously unseen artifacts...
McCafferty, who spoke to her fans at a public library in Manhattan today, was referring not to Viswanathan but Jessica Darling, the Ivy League protagonist of her popular book series. "I wanted Jessica to make a lot of mistakes," McCafferty said, "so that she could learn from them...