Word: manhattanization
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...someone will get real drunk and yell, 'Backstreet Boys.' If I were a regular 28-year-old guy, I'd think the same thing, that I'm a watered-down teen idol. I get it," he says, drinking his second Stoli with lime at an Irish pub in midtown Manhattan. "Whenever that happens, I buy the guy who said it a shot of Jack Daniel's, and in 10 minutes I'm his new best friend." Even Jimmy Kimmel, co-host of The Man Show and Daly's real-life friend, thinks the off-air Daly is acceptable. "Carson doesn...
...alive. (Oh, well, what else is new? Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?) He was John Koch. His work is at the New York Historical Society. As it should be, for it is intimately part of the history of Manhattan, as, say, Jackson Pollock...
...island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem, whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain illusive,” wrote E. B. White in Here is New York. “Manhattan has been compelled to expand skyward because of the absence of any other direction in which to grow. This, more than any other thing, is responsible for its physical majesty...
Here is New York has attracted so much attention—for a while the lines were out the door and down the block—that it may move to a more permanent space in midtown Manhattan, and there are traveling exhibitions throughout the U.S. as well as on their website. It is, in two senses, a “democracy of photographs”—a democratic exhibition about a democracy meeting crisis...
...entrance to my parents' home in Manhattan is an old poster of the Big Apple that reads: "You have to be a little crazy to live in New York, but you'd be nuts to live anywhere else." The first time veteran Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng came to visit, he asked me to translate the words for him. Chuckling heartily, he pointed to his nose. "Just like me," he said, suddenly somber. "You have to be a little crazy to stand up to the Chinese government, but it's nuts not to." Exiled after 18 brutal years in prison...