Word: manhattanization
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...when eight cops stomped into the Stonewall Inn, a dive in Manhattan's Greenwich Village district that had no liquor license but served watery drinks to a mix of drag queens, street kids, gay professionals and closeted and straight mafiosi (who ran the place). Within two hours, the Village was bleeding and burning as hundreds rioted...
...acknowledges the history and long-standing cultural practices of their homelands. But preconceptions about the Japanese gift for wabi--refined simplicity--will get you nowhere with the dancing cartoon mushrooms of the post-Pop artist Takashi Murakami. A very visible figure on the international art circuit, Murakami decked out Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal last year with giant balloons covered with eyeballs that owed more to the Japanese obsession with cartoon animation than to tea ceremonies and lacquered trays...
...where he met a slew of grizzled expatriates with shady pasts. Later, an International Herald Tribune story about felons hiding out in Cambodia due to its lack of extradition treaties further sparked his imagination. Working with writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), he penned a noirish yarn about a Manhattan yuppie (played by Dillon) embroiled in a major insurance scam who travels to Phnom Penh and reunites with his mentor, portrayed by James Caan (The Godfather). The plot follows Dillon's character through sweat-soaked brothel scenes, all-night temple raves and a seedy guesthouse where French superstar G?rard Depardieu...
Whether in Europe, Lavietes Pavilion or Manhattan, Kan., sophomore center Reka Cserny’s so-called European style has been confounding both defenses and referees...
...purple-clad Kansas State fans, the Crimson fell 79-69 to the No. 7 Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA East Regional in Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kan. on March...