Word: manhattanization
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...Parliament who spearheaded the ban. "Death awaits you whether you smoke or not," he warned her. "Pubs are not health clubs." As for New York City, now that it has its own smoking ban, he's through with it. "Little Emily with asthma," he sighs. "She has taken over Manhattan...
THIS IS, AFTER ALL, SOMEBODY WHO started his career by remaking not just his work but himself. In 1961, when he first visited the U.S., not long after finishing London's Royal College of Art, Hockney was thrilled by the freedom and challenge of Manhattan. He responded by bleaching his hair blond, his trademark look for years to come. But his real transformation began three years later, when he discovered Los Angeles and refashioned himself into somebody even more California than the Beach Boys. So heartfelt and persuasive was his embrace of L.A. that within a few years his lambent...
...sloppy” are the greatest vulnerabilities students face when using the internet.ONLINE MEDIAA more disturbing trend, however, is not the dissemination of private data, but students’ willingness to surrender such data about themselves over the internet. Gawker, a blog that bills itself as a source of Manhattan media news and gossip, published the Facebook photo of Luke Russert, a student at Boston College, back in October, 2005. The photo showed Luke, son of “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, with a bevy of bikini-clad girls. Following Gawker’s publication...
...area in the long run would stimulate economic growth by creating new jobs and putting the U.S. back on the cutting edge of energy technology. Unfortunately, it seems that President Bush has answered the praiseworthy, yet ultimately powerless, calls for an energy initiative on the scale of the Manhattan Project—frequent refrains of Thomas Friedman of The New York Times and the Apollo Alliance of Washington, D.C.—with an empty, echoing, “Yeah, that is a good idea.” Bush has yet to demonstrate a willingness to advance any immediate proposals...
...Jungen's most crucial moment of inspiration for the Proto- types came during a trip to New York City in the late '90s, when he wandered into Manhattan's enormous Niketown store, where athletic shoes are displayed in glass cases like precious objects. "I came there straight from the Metropolitan Museum," he says. "I was fascinated that the Nikes were on display in this museum-like environment." From there, it was just a short step to making Nike-like things for a real museum. As opposed to a lot of art that plays seriously with ideas, Jungen's masks, some...