Word: manhattanization
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...Mostly, men shop for women. For instance, in midtown Manhattan - a place that puts its astonishing variety of female beauty on display for any idle ambler - the streets are our mall. Walking is our browsing. Sometimes the proliferation of pulchritude is so intense, a gent can get swivel-necked from simple appreciation. It's a pastime for any man, including the mild-mannered, happily married and legally faithful; and it isn't an act of male predation. Just the reverse: it's fealty, an acknowledgment that women have a power over men, which can be ignited at the turn...
...while, isn't the fairer sex horribly unfair to its own? Nichols doesn't think so. "Women's competitiveness with one another was always exaggerated, from the days of Clare Boothe Luce on," he says, referring to her 1936 play (and the 1939 movie) "The Women," which proposed that Manhattan's most privileged females were rolling and roiling in bitchery, gossip and recriminations, all designed to bring other women down. "And when cheese-and-wine sessions to discuss orgasms first hit (durng the '70s), women discovered that the competition was never as avid as had been portrayed in 'The Women...
...claim this music as a birthright. His father, who died when he was 7, was Broadway composer Moose Charlap (Peter Pan, Kelly) and his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, who toured with Benny Goodman and co-starred on Perry Como's 1960s TV show. In his parents' Manhattan apartment, young Bill mingled with composers like Charles Strouse, who wrote the musical Bye Bye Birdie, and lyricists like Alan and Marilyn Bergman (The Way We Were) and the one he called "Uncle Yip," E.Y. Harburg (Somewhere Over the Rainbow, April in Paris...
...Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola last month, Charlap was the opening act. Lincoln Center has booked him to present a concert in February titled Great American Songwriters. He was also named to take over next year as artistic director of the well-regarded Jazz in July festival at Manhattan's 92nd Street...
...Kirshner’s wife, co-master Jayne Loader—“mastermind of the moody lights,” as Kirshner calls her—who saw the lights featured in an article on experimental designers in the New York Times. The lights, popular in Manhattan bars and discos, appealed to Kirshner and Loader in large part due to their sturdy nature...