Word: manhattanization
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Anyway, back to the Loews Theater on 72nd Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on a rainy November afternoon. About halfway through Love Actually, Hugh Grant, playing the irrepressibly charming if undeniably naïve British Prime Minister, welcomes the American president to 10 Downing Street. The president, played by Billy Bob Thornton with a mixture of Bushie intransigence and Clintonian lecherousness, first refuses to give an inch in political negotiations and then makes a (somewhat successful) move on the attractive personal assistant on whom Grant has set his heart...
...millions of women around the world. As vice president of global advertising for Estee Lauder, Aerin bears responsibility for how her grandmother's namesake brand is perceived. "I'm not under any pressure, am I?" she says with a laugh in the company's corporate headquarters, 40 floors above Manhattan's Central Park. "I don't close the door at the end of the day. I'm always thinking about my work...
...very rewarding to see something rise out of nothing," says Kenny, "and it was wonderful to see our kids be so nurturing to the local children--and be nurtured by them as well." The trip cost $1,695 per person, not including transportation from their home in Manhattan Beach, Calif. "We were where we could help others who are not as fortunate as we are," says Jackie...
With pickings slimmer in major cities, job seekers who once turned up their noses at small-town positions are now eagerly foraging for them. Dan Zumbiel, 34, was an ad copywriter in Manhattan, moving up at powerful agencies Ogilvy & Mather and DCA Advertising. Then came Sept. 11, 2001, followed by his layoff. He found the job market so tight that as a survival strategy, he expanded his job search to smaller markets. So when an agency in Sheboygan, Wis., called, "I thought: 'I've got nothing keeping me in New York, so I might as well give it a shot...
...latest models claim as much as seven miles of reception. But the more buildings, hills or other obstructions between you and the person on the other end, the shorter that distance becomes. I tested the 7-mile units in Manhattan, but I couldn't go more than seven blocks before the reception broke...