Word: manhattanization
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...maudlin scenes. In one the plain daughter asks him, "Do you think I'm pretty?" and in the other he watches the hot one get thrown over by a guy and has a vision of her as a scared, lost toddler. As in the original, Family Affair has wealthy Manhattan bachelor Uncle Bill (Gary Cole) taking in his brother's orphaned kids, who are such old-fashioned wide-eyed waifs, it's as if Bart Simpson had never been drawn...
Fragola said she hoped the action would both bolster janitors’ spirits and put pressure on Boston Properties, a multibillion-dollar corporation that owns property in Boston, Manhattan, Washington and San Francisco...
...events of the rest of that day are hazy, but I remember immediately thinking about the many Harvard friends I knew who had taken jobs in finance after graduation and were working that day in Manhattan. While I had joined the military two years earlier with the expectation that I would some day be in harm’s way, little did I know that my fellow economics concentrators working in New York City had more to fear than...
...Ground Zero before the ceremony, a group of New Yorkers tried to recall where the buildings had once stood and what they had looked like. They talked about stores that had been lost and favorite restaurants that had been closed because of the lack of business in Lower Manhattan after the attacks...
...white and blue Empire State Building, now the tallest building in Manhattan, stood watch over the skyline...