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...sleeves. Turning Torso, an apartment and office tower under construction in Malmö, Sweden, spirals suavely around its central core like a plug of twisted toffee, producing a form that looks stable and unified but also pliant, voluptuous. And for a condo tower about to go up in lower Manhattan, Calatrava breaks its mass into curving segments, residential packages that cantilever outward and carousel around and down the central core. When the building is completed, it could be an inspiration to American architects. "Not only did America invent the skyscraper," says Calatrava, "it invented the skyline." But American skylines have...
...plucked from an Ohio-based go-nowhere girl group by Lamont Jackson, music impresario extraordinaire. Lamont, who's filthy rich and something of a control freak, grooms Mimi for pop stardom--this book is makeover heaven--and introduces her to life in the cutthroat, Cristal-quaffing world of Manhattan's high-rolling hip-hoperati. Mimi starts out a hick but learns fast. Kennedy knows whereof she writes: she used to roll with Russell Simmons' posse, so she's been in all those clubs that would never...
Romana Kryzanowska weaves her way through Drago's Gym in midtown Manhattan like a mother hen, tending to her clients, teachers and apprentice instructors. The setting could be just about any well-appointed Pilates studio. What's unique is Kryzanowska, a pint-size dynamo who has taught Pilates for the past six decades--and who has just re-leased a four-volume DVD called Romana's Pilates. "I'm old, but I don't feel old," says Kryzanowska, who turned 81 on June...
...company she founded, will depend on a very different kind of corporate chemistry now that Stewart has been sentenced to serve prison time for conspiracy and obstruction after lying to federal investigators about a stock trade. Standing before Judge Miriam Cedarbaum last week in a courtroom in lower Manhattan, Stewart's voice faltered as she asked for leniency. "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie entirely in your competent and experienced and merciful hands," she said. Cedarbaum gave her the mildest sentence possible under federal guidelines: five months in a minimum-security federal prison and five...
...Yankees won the World Series each of my first three years of high school. And since I went to school in lower Manhattan it was natural to take the morning off to attend what was becoming an annual event—the ticker tape parade down the canyons of Broadway...