Word: manhattanization
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...DIED. ROONE ARLEDGE, 71, visionary ABC television executive who is credited with revolutionizing news and sports coverage and creating a string of hit shows including ABC's Wide World of Sports and Nightline; in Manhattan. Renowned for coining "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" tagline, Arledge won almost every award in the industry, including 37 Emmys and broadcasting's most prestigious accolade: induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame...
...faced character, he ruthlessly defends his territory and kills anyone who gets in his way, while also tenderly looking after his girlfriend Carmen. Vic’s identity as a Latino quickly comes into play as the film draws a very defined line between the Hispanic Bronx and White Manhattan. Although the film portrays the Bronx as indelibly linked to the illegal drug trade that takes place there, Manhattan, as represented by investment banker Jack Whimmer (Peter Sarsgaard), comes off as being more corrupt and far more superficial than its ethnically diverse neighbor...
...this reality thing, even if it means suing VH1 for the right to do so. They want to have their lives broadcast, not only to help revive Liza's career--she's got an album out, a comedy film deal in development and three Christmas shows at Manhattan's Town Hall in early December--but to serve as an inspirational role model. "Part of the thing I wanted to do with the show was to help somebody, baby," Liza says...
...Crimson told this story as a talk show would, revealing little details at which the audience at home could snicker mercilessly—details that are not worth reporting, and details that are clearly the manifestations of a disordered mind: a job at Chase Manhattan, studies at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge consecutively, a bag full of tailored business clothing. The article resulted in a mockery of this woman and of her disorder by cross-checking her clearly delusional reports to the alumni newsletters, reporting them as fact, and then exposing her lies as though they could have ever been believed...
...Relieved” just might be the best word to describe Tellier. I covered three Harvard-Columbia games during my time as a Crimson writer, two in Cambridge and one in Manhattan. All three were Harvard romps. And all I could remember immediately after each game was just how depressing the postgame press conferences were...