Word: manhattanization
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...making the biggest mark is a moonfaced, bespectacled six-footer named Milton Glaser, 38, head of Manhattan's influential Push Pin Studios, which drafts advertisements and designs such things as book jackets and record covers. Glaser initially developed a pseudo-rococo style, inspired by the 18th century etchings that he had studied on a Fulbright scholarship in Italy. When that was widely imitated, he shifted to what might be called silhouetch, with shadows reverberating outward and often colored with brilliantly acidic hues. Of late, with silhouetch being copied in scores of advertisements, Glaser has been bearing down...
...TIME's Manhattan headquarters, the data were changed back into pictures at our high-tech facility known as IMPACT, for Image Processing and Color Transmission, where the magazine's stories and illustrations are assembled into pages each week. IMPACT then beamed the late-closing pages to TIME's U.S. and overseas printing plants. "Because the pages dealing with Reykjavik were held past deadline, we had to arrange special late crews at all ten U.S. plants," said Corporate Operations Manager Elaine Fry. "Extra delivery trucks were dispatched in some cities to rush the issue to the newsstands...
...From Manhattan's Wall Street to San Francisco's California Street and back, the sounds of heavyweight pushing and pulling echoed across the U.S. last week. Takeover tug-of-war, the contest of corporate wiles and financial muscle that has affected almost every major U.S. industry in the past two years, was back as a premier event in the business world. In the nation's top challenge matches, the largest U.S. steelmaker and the No. 2 banking company, already laden with problems, faced off with some ambitious would-be prizewinners...
...mother angled for an exit visa to the U.S., his father was arrested by the Soviets as a German spy and offered the choice of Soviet citizenship or 15 years' hard labor in Siberia. He chose the latter and could not join his family, by then settled in Manhattan, until the late 1940s. Max's own brood comprises his wife of 30 years, Tobia, and three children...
...time, neighbors. Shelton's evocations of the Village folk scene in the '60s are affectionate but level, describing Dylan's stormy and formative love affair with Suze Rotolo, which inspired many of his early tunes, and bringing bemused skepticism to Dylan's own tales of his arrival in Manhattan ("Cats would pick us up and chicks would pick us up and we would do anything you wanted, as long as it paid"). Whacked on Rimbaud and Woody Guthrie, Dylan was a mythomaniac with a backhand regard for truth. Accepting an award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee...