Word: manhattanization
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...victory drew near--the finale was a 3-0 game in which the Cards played as though the curse had struck them--thousands of fans gathered near Fenway, while across New England, from the Maine woods to the divided turf of Connecticut, there was teary joy. Even in Manhattan, deep within enemy territory, expats of the Red Sox Nation poured into the streets to celebrate as the locals, for once, quietly seethed. Some 3.2 million fans thronged Boston for the victory parade, so many that the parade route was extended into the Charles River by boat...
...uptown Manhattan, perched on a sofa in his sumptuous apartment, with its housekeeper and its blue baby grand and its views of Central Park, Wolfe in person is a sharp contrast to his personality on the page. His prose bristles with italics and exclamation points and repetitions--repetitions!--for emphasis, but Wolfe himself speaks softly, slowly and a little hoarsely, with the ruins of a long-ago Virginia accent. He has always been dapper, but now he is a dapper old man. His appearance is not so much wolfish as avian: his frame is slight, his nose hooked and beaky...
...does one woman get the chance to “go everywhere?” The pieces in My Kind of Place have a range of settings, from a Manhattan high school a few blocks from Orlean’s home to a trailer park in Portland, Oregon to, yes, Mt. Fuji, with a focus on the subcultures that flourish out of the common view...
...Bohr remained under virtual house arrest for both his Jewish heritage and his anti-Nazi worldview. He survived this way until 1943 when, days before being taken away, he escaped to England in the bomber hold of an allied aircraft. Eventually he made his way to the top-secret Manhattan Project where his theories were being tested on the making of a nuclear bomb. He soon became a security concern, however, since his philosophical and globalist nature drove him to encourage open sharing of nuclear information with the Russians. Though he failed to head off the arms race before...
...student, a Mets fan from the mean streets of Manhattan, looked at us with crocodile tears in his eyes. “I’m just…so…happy,” he sobbed with an undertone of scorn. “They finally won. Now let’s get the fuck out of here...