Word: manhattanization
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...welcome such a probe because it would enable him to defend himself; the formal declaration allows him access to all the evidence collected by the two magistrates. The sight of Messier in custody inevitably provoked feelings of schadenfreude - after all, in his glory days Messier lived in a swank Manhattan penthouse bought with Vivendi's money. Yet some of his critics are arguing that he's not the only problem. Whether or not he's guilty of criminal wrongdoing, they say, he was abetted by a Vivendi board that didn't do its job and by French regulators who turned...
...since it has a wonderfully wounding malice directed at both the Stepford, Conn., contingent of Energizer Bunny wives and the New Yorkers who have just moved in. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman), a just-fired network boss, wears black to the town's July 4 picnic. "Only high-powered castrating Manhattan bitches wear black," she is told. "Is that what you wanted to be?" Her demure reply: "Ever since I was a little girl...
...does some of Sex's character, encapsulated in that now condensed credit sequence, in which Carrie wanders awestruck through Manhattan--then gets drenched by a bus that hits a puddle. It's part fantasy, part dirty reality--the chaos of city life, the comic messiness of sex. Even a judiciously censored version will inevitably tilt toward the fantasy. TBS's Sex is a fine, perceptive comedy; it's just not quite the same fine, perceptive comedy. The difference is the difference between making love and a certain gerund I can't write here. Both are wonderful things...
Having walked all possible avenues of procrastination, the Beastie Boys started a new album just before Sept. 11. When the planes hit, the three lower-Manhattan residents justifiably took some more time off. When they began recording in earnest, "we kind of anticipated making a pretty serious record," says Diamond. "Maybe a fifty-fifty balance of serious to ridiculously silly. But as I say, there's no plan...
...life as a high-end dessert. Pastry chefs are now filling their after-dinner menus with doughnuts and fritters fresh from the fryer, like the Drunken Doughnuts at New York City's Maloney and Porcelli, left, which come with three tiny jars of liquor-spiked jams. Also in Manhattan, at the Red Cat, pastry chef Rebecca Masson offers risotto fritters with gingered blueberries and wildflower honey semifreddo, while diners at Riingo are treated to doughnut holes filled with green tea jam. At Grace restaurant in Los Angeles, Elizabeth Belkind serves jelly doughnuts with a velvety vanilla custard and strawberry-buttermilk...