Word: manhattanization
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...bicoastal failure. First she bombed at writing screenplays, although she peppered Los Angeles agents with 100 submissions. "Not one person wrote me back," she remembers with a wince. "I could not even get rejected." She ran into another wall of refusal when she sent her first novel to Manhattan book agents. By 1991, Scottoline was broke: receiving no alimony, she had maxed out her credit cards and was $38,500 in debt...
...news conference yesterday in the Carnegie Corporation’s Manhattan office, administrators from the five schools and officials from the two sponsoring foundations delivered dire warnings about the state of the journalism profession...
...viewers will laugh or be offended, but at least NBC has made a sitcom about people who don't drink merlot in penthouses. (Whereas Four Kings, a midseason sitcom with Seth Green, sounds like a parody of a derivative NBC sitcom concept: four single young guys inherit a huge Manhattan apartment. Is one of them a paleontologist...
...Crimson only sent six team members to the event, but those who competed did well, with several earning spots at the NCAA regional competition which will be held at Manhattan College’s Randall’s Island Facility on May 27. The competitions were among the last for the team’s seniors and they wanted to make the most of them...
Breathy, blond Chloe; bitter, tweed-wearing Emily; and bland spinster Betty: that's a sample of the personas that former New York Times restaurant critic Reichl inhabited in her quest to remain anonymous to Manhattan's foodie establishment as she reviewed her way through highfalutin four-star eateries and dingy Japanese noodle shops. But this tasty (forgive me) chronicle of disguise--sentimental and hilarious--also conveys the sheer delight that people feel when sinking their teeth into a truly memorable meal...