Word: manhattanization
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...moved into the Parkside Evangeline because I got rejected from NYU— housing, that is. My mom found the all-female boarding house for me after talking with a young woman who had lived there while interning in Manhattan. My mother’s assistance only went so far, so I did what any reasonable person would do next: a Google search, which revealed that the place was run by the Salvation Army...
...they sat outside listening to music, drinking the odd Corona, and chatting. We called it “Beach Party ’05” (“Thanksgiving Road Trip ’04” was our drive home for Thanksgiving). Last week, Paul wandered lower Manhattan with Steve, and planned to prep Lindsey for JV basketball tryouts. Everything was at an all-time high...
When I took a job at the World Bank, I thought I was enduring some hardship for the benefit of the poor in some other country. I thought that while my friends were making $10,000+ for the summer at large private investment firms in Manhattan, I would be slaving away in hot and humid D.C. as a lowly clerk in a poorly-ventilated basement cubicle that I would share with ten other people, at least two of whom would be from a country that didn’t believe in deodorant...
Buying an apple can be a revolutionary act. Don't believe it? Read The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel, a new book by Sherri Brooks Vinton and Ann Clark Espuelas (Tarcher/Penguin). Galley Girl had breakfast with Vinton, 37, at a swank midtown Manhattan restaurant and chewed the (non-trans...
...boyhood days in Shanghai, where he watched Buddhist monks painting at a nearby pagoda. Max's designs, exploited through corporate tie-ups with half a dozen companies including General Electric, and emblazoned on posters, cups, plates, decals, and medallions, make him the grooviest thing going. He zaps about Manhattan with his blonde, beret-crowned wife in a decal-covered 1952 Rolls-Royce with a liveried chauffeur. What will he do for his U25 (under 25) audience, when the psychedelic fad fades? "Something like what I'm doing now, but more cosmological, a blending with outer space," explains...