Word: manhattanization
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...menu is amazingly wide-ranging, ensuring that those attractive 20-somethings will have loosened their inhibitions enough to approach one another. “Our bartender makes the best Manhattan in Boston,” boasted Assistant Manager Chris McMahon...
...wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously," she said. After she sat down, a Congressman confessed, "I never saw anything like it. Madame Chiang had me on the verge of bursting into tears." At the age of 105, Madame Chiang died last week in her Manhattan apartment...
...Arbus as so quintessentially modern that it's a shock to remember that she was a child of the flapper age and the Depression. She was born Diane (she pronounced it Dee-ann) Nemerov in New York City in 1923. Her father was the director of Russek's, a Manhattan fur and fashion emporium that had been founded by her mother's family and made them rich. Arbus, her younger sister Renee and her older brother Howard--later a U.S. poet laureate--grew up on Park Avenue. She spoke once of realizing the existence of another world, a forbidden zone...
...business, well, that's because it is. Proponents of free wi-fi like Pozar believe that paying for Internet access is as dumb as paying for a radio signal (which is, of course, exactly what wi-fi is). Already their tin cans and string have scored successes from Manhattan to Milwaukee. Small retail outlets such as bookstores and coffee shops are starting to get with the program too. They find that giving away bandwidth is an easy way to attract customers...
...free Internet node and bypass the store's paid service entirely. "Why pay if you don't have to?" says Kevin Lawrence, 28, a software-industry entrepreneur, who spent hours typing on his laptop but hadn't bothered to buy anything during a recent visit to a Starbucks in Manhattan...