Word: manhattanization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York have been besieged with demands for ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, the only antibiotic specifically approved for treating anthrax. Police all over the U.S. have been fielding calls reporting suspicious substances; on Friday a single precinct in New York City responded to three different alerts, quarantining one building in lower Manhattan for two hours. The city's emergency rooms were besieged as well. "There's a lot of anxiety," reports Dr. Marc Stoller of the city's Beth Israel Medical Center...
...years ago, the lyrics seem as tough and experienced as a lot of hip-hop songs today. One of the best songs of this first sort is "Autumn in New York," a standard that has been performed by Billie Holiday, among others. The lyrics capture the gritty romance of Manhattan life: "Glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel/ They're making me feel I'm home." Lyrical portraits of New York aren?t always pretty. In 1994, the rapper Nas released a song titled "NY State of Mind" with lyrics that go "I never sleep, cause sleep...
...even if the city?s streets and landmarks aren?t explicitly mentioned in the text of the song, and even if the song lacks lyrics entirely, the spirit of the city comes through all the same. George Gershwin?s instrumental piece "Rhapsody in Blue" doesn?t have to mention Manhattan to evoke the city?s soul. The opening clarinet winds its way up like morning light hitting an apartment building, the brass instruments sound like crosstown traffic. Saxophonist John Coltrane?s "Central Park West" also wordlessly captures the moody allure of the streets and sidewalks...
...that Fox was parceled out and knocked around is hardly doing her perilous and nomadic childhood justice. Left at a Manhattan foundling home by a mother “panic-stricken and ungovernable in her haste to have done” with her newborn baby, and a father seemingly incapacitated by love and alcohol, Paula eventually found her way into the care of Reverend Elwood Corning, a loving and heroic Congregationalist minister in upstate New York. At the age of six, Paula’s parents resurfaced, sending for her from Hollywood, where her father, Paul Fox, was a small...
...Anthrax spores were found in the Manhattan offices of New York Governor George Pataki. The Governor and affected staff members are taking Cipro as a precaution against infection. There was no word as to whether anyone was exposed to the bacteria...