Word: manhattanization
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Didion is a tiny woman, under 5 ft. and skeletally thin. Her clothes hang on her like hand-me-downs. Ropy veins stand out on her arms and hands through her translucent skin. She answers the door to her Upper East Side Manhattan apartment with a perfunctory whispered greeting, barely raising her eyes from the floor, then immediately shuffles away again. She has the air of somebody who has reached a point in her life where she is dispensing with the unnecessaries...
...gleaming white labs on Manhattan's West Side, a team of perfumers recently set out to create a new fragrance that would strike sniffers as imaginative, passionate, dynamic and "human." The three most promising bouquets were consumer tested in China, Brazil, Russia, Thailand, Germany and the U.S.--and then tweaked some more. The result, a fresh, fruity aroma, won't be dabbed behind the ears of fashionistas or sold on the shelves of chic department stores. But if you visit the Samsung Experience store in New York City--or, soon, if you open up a Samsung Electronics package or pamphlet...
...David Steward, a former president of TV Guide, and his partner Pierre Friedrichs, a caterer, hosted an uncomfortably crowded cocktail party at their Manhattan apartment. It was a typical gay fund raiser--there were lemony vodka drinks with mint sprigs; there were gift bags with Calvin Klein sunglasses; Friedrichs prepared little blackened-tuna-with-mango-chutney hors d'oeuvres that were served by uniformed waiters. Billionaire philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr. was there; David Mixner, a gay activist and longtime friend of Bill Clinton's, was holding court with Jason Moore, director of the musical Avenue...
...parking attendant said it best. "Doesn't look like a Pontiac," he noted as we pulled into a Manhattan garage in a silver Solstice-the all-new convertible roadster with the curvy looks and fun-loving attitude. Pontiac's fleet has undergone an extensive makeover, seven new vehicles in the past two years, from the G6 to the GTO, that emphasize style and higher performance. Yet the brand remains a problem for GM; it isn't cool like Toyota's Scion, prized for its reliability like Honda or renowned for its engineering like BMW. Not even Oprah's giveaway...
...showdown between Harvard and the Korea Equity Fund came on Aug. 10 at the fund’s annual meeting at its offices in lower Manhattan. Days later, when the votes were counted, Harvard had failed to secure a majority, garnering 42 percent of the votes of outstanding shares...