Word: manhattanization
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...mounting a comeback. After a slump in the mid-1990s, bicycle production leaped to more than 100 million units in 2000, compared with just 62 million in 1980. But what about couch potatoes who have no willpower to pedal? At least two manufacturers, Aprilia in Italy and Manhattan Scientifics in the U.S., think they have the answer: make the venerable two-wheeler propel itself with its very own fuel cell. --With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...Yorker was the gracious home to John Cheever and S.J. Perelman and A.J. Liebling and Charles Addams, And though the magazine was supposed to be edited for a "little old lady in Dubuque," it was more typically the favorite reading and kindling material for a commuting crowd of Manhattan monsieurs and their homemaking Westchester maddams. But it also came to a home in the Carpenter Woods section of Philadelphia, To a neighborhood full of kids, where you'd play ball on the street and come home when your mom would yellphia. I was one of those kids, with the average...
...movie. Blaxploitation's heroes, men and women, had attitude and style and were true to the experience of black moviegoers. Roundtree's John Shaft, as Isaac Hayes sang, was "the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks"--but couldn't hail a cab in Manhattan. "We knew him," Samuel L. Jackson remembers. "We felt...
Think back. Was that Betsy Carter's name you saw in the gossip columns in 1986? That was the year that Carter, the former editorial director of Esquire, launched New York Woman, an edgy, sophisticated magazine for urban women. For Carter--accomplished, energetic, at center stage of the Manhattan magazine world--those must have been exciting, happy times, right? Wrong. While her career flourished, Carter's private life was rocked by a sequence of injury, illness, divorce and other disasters so relentless and extensive that it would be almost laughable if it hadn't been so painful. Carter...
...movie. Blaxploitation's heroes, men and women, had attitude and style and were true to the experience of black moviegoers. Roundtree's John Shaft, as Isaac Hayes sang, was "the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks"--but couldn't hail a cab in Manhattan. "We knew him," Samuel L. Jackson remembers. "We felt...