Word: manhattanization
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...WORLD SERIES. If baseball were this great all the time, Bud Selig wouldn't be trying to shrink the league. With Manhattan smoldering, the Yankees bore the city's pain and pride to the Bronx and won three games there, snatching two with midnight dramatics. No sentimental ending, though. The Arizona Diamondbacks' spectacular pitching duo of Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson numbed Yankee bats in Phoenix, while a seventh-game, bottom-of-the-ninth rally provided a classic, and deserved, triumph for the home team...
...women to shape their destinies. They have had to put up with terror their entire lives in their very homes. Perhaps the war on terrorism will have beneficial results for a long-forgotten, oppressed people: not the men of Islam, but their wives, mothers and sisters. KATHERINE RYAN Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...deal and book contract to travel around the world eating lamb testicles, duck embryo and a still-beating cobra heart ("like an aggressive oyster," he says). For this interview, he escapes from his Upper West Side apartment to a signless Japanese restaurant in the basement of a midtown Manhattan office building. He orders sea urchin roe and clam abductor muscle, smokes nine Lark cigarettes, and points out what he says is a geisha house behind a door without a handle. Chefs know all kinds of cool stuff...
...renegade rock-'n'-roll chef is going to get harder for Bourdain as his celebrity rises. David Fincher, the director of Fight Club, has optioned Kitchen Confidential for a film to be called Seared, and Brad Pitt may play the main character. Bourdain still maintains a position at the Manhattan brasserie Les Halles, where he is now executive chef, which means he shows up with a six-pack of Corona a few times a month and hangs out with the staff. He says he will never cook again; his knees are too shot and his bank account...
...transformation is too strong a word. Who doesn't change his look in his 20s? The Gehry chairs? They wouldn't have lasted in Hong Kong's humidity. And there are personal touches on display, like vintage comics and a framed 1977 TIME cover of Rupert Murdoch towering over Manhattan, with the headline: AUSSIE PRESS LORD TERRIFIES GOTHAM. James also admits to keeping a Dewback, a Star Wars creature, in his office, "still in the box because I can't decide?they are always more valuable in the box. But I kind of want to take...