Word: manhattanization
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...unfortunate piece of journalism. By midday, lower Manhattan was a smoking ruin, bombing the Pentagon had a new meaning, and revolutionary violence was no longer the subject of nostalgia. Our holiday from history, from seriousness of thought and purpose, was over...
...place like moan for the holidays. That's now the tradition for year-end movies, and this year the season of official good feeling is refracted in Oscar-envious films about troubled folks. A schizophrenic mathematician, a slow-witted father, an amnesiac writer, a disfigured playboy, unhappy families in Manhattan and on an English estate--all these sad souls threaten to turn the holiday film scene into a Yuletide reunion at Bellevue. But wait. Most of these tales are ultimately journeys to spiritual health. And if you need a dose of old-movie magic--reach for the Ring. THE LORD...
...with Kate & Leopold, in which the dashing but impecunious third Duke of Albany (Jackman) is zapped from 1876 New York (he is in town reluctantly seeking a rich bride) to contemporary Manhattan, where he falls for Kate McKay, a hard-charging market researcher. His transportation is provided by her dreamy amateur scientist ex-boyfriend (Schreiber). Some of his education in contemporary rudeness is supplied by her brother (Meyer), a hilariously earnest, perpetually out-of-work Method actor...
Giuliani and his aides break into a run, chased by the rush of debris snaking through lower Manhattan. When they arrive at the Tribeca Grand, the eight-story atrium lobby is big enough for them to work in, but there is a problem...
...sensibilities matured over the decades, Berlin adjusted some songs to avoid offense. The 1927 "Shakin' the Blues Away" begins: "Every darkie believes that trouble won't stay if you shake it away." Later it was changed to "Everybody believes..." "Puttin' on the Ritz" was originally about Manhattan whites going uptown: "Why don't you go where Harlem sits/ Puttin' on the Ritz/ Spangled gowns upon a bevy/ Of high browns from down the levee/ All misfits/ Puttin' on the Ritz." By the time Fred Astaire sang the tune in 1946, it had become another of Berlin's twittin'-the-rich...