Word: manhattanization
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...ads’ defenders counter that the TV spots aren’t about 9/11—even though their content is almost entirely from lower Manhattan (or, in some cases, staged to look like it)—but about the leadership Bush offered after the attacks. Even though this is demonstrably false, as there is little to nothing about Bush’s actual post-9/11 record in them, we hope that voters will take the time to consider Bush’s performance instead of just letting the images scare them into voting...
...winners of the respective men’s and women’s meets were Manhattan College and the University of Pittsburgh...
...Calatrava wanted to be a sculptor, but an early encounter with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sent him down the path of architecture (art is still his avocation--his Manhattan town house and his villa outside Zurich are filled with his abstract steel sculpture). Shortly after finishing his architecture studies he won a design competition for a train station in Zurich, and because he had taken the unusual step of getting a second degree in engineering, he soon found himself being sought out to design bridges throughout Europe, a job that ordinarily falls to engineers and rarely...
...best-remembered structures, not only for its airborne exuberance but also for the location where it brings that feeling to bear--at ground zero in New York City. Calatrava was chosen last year to design the $2 billion new terminal there for the PATH commuter line that connects Manhattan with New Jersey. The design he unveiled in January is an angular palisade of white ribs with an upward thrust that he says was inspired by the idea of a child releasing a bird into the air. If ever there was a place that needed a building that lifted the spirit...
...Friday's verdict by a Manhattan jury holds, Martha Stewart could soon be doing her homemaking in the proverbial big house. After deliberating for three days at the end of a five week trial, a jury found the icon of domestic taste guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and two counts of making false statements - a rap sheet that could earn her up to 20 years in prison. Her stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic was convicted on charges of conspiracy, perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Moments after the verdict, Stewart in a statement on her Website said she would...