Word: manhattanization
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...Just as the Bangkok characters start to come alive, McDonell abruptly drops his “Heart of Darkness” subplot and cuts back to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. On a crisp September morning, Mike (who has transferred to Columbia) is buying a blueberry muffin in a coffee shop as the first plane strikes the World Trade Center. Mike races toward ground zero to find his older brother Lyle, who lives near the site...
...Mike’s descent toward the inferno at the bottom of Manhattan is reminiscent of Dante’s journey to the depths of Hell in “The Divine Comedy.” Mike is separated from his girlfriend Jane during the chaotic hours after the attacks, evoking memories of the pair of lovers in Dante’s epic – Francesca and Paulo – who are tossed around by the “stormy blast of Hell.” McDonell’s image of a turban-wearing taxi driver...
...Sartorius seems a familiar name, it's because we first glimpsed him in Doctorow's 1994 novel The Waterworks, a story of murderous intrigues in early 20th century Manhattan. And among the freed slaves is Coalhouse Walker, whose son and namesake will rage at the center of Ragtime. You sense that with this work Doctorow is inviting us to regard his novels as a career-length meditation on more than a century of the American past, with its bloodshed and racial obsessions, its hallucinatory edges and its complicated freedoms. The March is a more straightforward book than Ragtime...
That was my city four years ago. In the days that followed, we all carried each other out of the abyss. We rebuilt lower Manhattan, and we vowed as a nation that we would never again let a calamity of such magnitude catch us unprepared...
President Bush, sitting chair by chair with President Hu Jintao of China on Tuesday before a United Nations summit in Manhattan, broke the silence as aides herded out the last of the journalists who had been brought in to record the leaders' pre-meeting pleasantries. Bush and Hu were in a cramped Waldorf Astoria suite that was blazing with studio lighting installed by the White House. "All right!" Bush told the translators and underlings with a sly smile. "Now we can get some oxygen in this room...