Word: manhattanization
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Such is the pathos of the Manhattan Front Row Girls (FRGs) depicted in British fashionista turned novelist Plum Syke’s new novel Bergdorf Blondes, to be released in April by Miramax Books. The light-hearted, designer label-laden novel is latest of the “chick-lit” fiction craze that has spawned a plethora of unlikely pop heroines from Bridget Jones to Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones...
Brown faithful, why are you headed to Manhattan to watch the Bears take on Columbia? Penn followers, why are you traversing the New Hampshire wilderness to watch the Quakers crush what little pride the Big Green has left? (Or, even more inconceivably, why are you headed off to Pago Pago for spring break while your postseason hopes still hang in the balance...
...path and having it turn out to be precisely what we were after all along,” Matt says, who graduated with a degree in the history of art and architecture (then called fine arts). Now the Lee brothers wander in and out of the best kitchens in Manhattan, observing chefs and divulging the secret behind creations such as, say, Tuscan duck l’orange. They have been published in Gourmet, Food and Wine, Travel and Leisure and GQ, and they have written not just about food but also about exploring their beloved South Carolina...
...country caravan of books and playlets and (my favorite) Charles D. Cohen's "The Seuss the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel." It's a trove of Seussiana, with special attention to Geisel's formative years in college and in the Manhattan magazine and advertising business. Indeed, Cohen seems to have run out of steam, space or interest when it came to Geisel's mature work in books and film...
...subject. It was the third consecutive year a Geisel war movie had received an Oscar nomination, and never with credit to him. By now the Geisels had moved to La Jolla, near San Diego, and Ted was still itching to make a real movie. (With his lyric gift and Manhattan prominence, I can't figure why he hadn't worked on a Broadway show in the '30s.) He got his chance when producer Stanley Kramer, then the serious young producer of note ("Champion," "The Men," "Death of a Salesman," "High Noon"), signed him to write the script and lyrics...