Word: manhattanization
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...rest of the Carter bandwagon declared irony defunct. Carter announced to the media magazine Inside.com in mid-September that “it’s the end of the age of irony.” Which made sense as a prognostication when missing-person posters and soot covered Manhattan...
...healthy to argue, vent your anger, the experts say, but there is so much of it, especially in the city with a gash in the ground where our skyscrapers used to be. In lower Manhattan they vacuum and wipe, go to work, go to a funeral, then come home, vacuum and wipe, scream at the community-board meeting about the filth in the air--How much asbestos is there anyway?--and the absence of school buses. After the first few weeks of quiet, the city's crisis hotlines are blistered with calls and there are no beds available...
...Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated the secret of the Manhattan Project's atom bomb, but the Soviets (through Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs and others...
...favors consuming our way out of this slump as well, urging us to "go to Disney World" and eat high on the hog, as he did for the cameras at Morton's steak house. "What can you do to help in this crisis?" Mayor Rudy Giuliani asked, with lower Manhattan smoldering in the background. His answer: "Spend, spend, spend...
...London and a graduate of that city's Camberwell School of Art, Ritchie, 37, says he developed an interest in science in the early '90s after flipping idly through textbooks he found in trash cans around New York University dorms while he was moonlighting as a superintendent in Manhattan apartment buildings. In the Big Bang and other cosmological transformations that can never be realistically depicted, he saw a void his imagination could fill. The result, says fellow painter Carroll Dunham, is work that is "much more abstract than most art that has a narrative basis. And much more narrative than...