Word: manhattanization
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...DeFuniak Springs, a small town in the Florida panhandle, a local librarian remembered that the hijackers had used library computers to book flight reservations, saw a man from the Middle East seated at a keyboard and called the police. (The man was guilty of nothing.) Those driving into Manhattan were stuck in lines of the sort usually seen only in Bangkok or Mexico City, as authorities made carpools compulsory and searched every van and truck, especially those licensed to carry hazardous materials. "This is how it is because this is how it has to be," said a law-enforcement official...
...dappled (and World Trade Center-less) Manhattan, Serendipity wastes no time in introducing its central characters. Cusack plays Jonathan Trager, a nice floppy-haired guy; Kate Beckinsale (of Pearl Harbor ‘fame’) plays Sara, a nice wild-haired girl. In the first scene they “meet cute,” both reaching for the same pair of gloves in a Christmas-crazy Bloomingdales. Each wants the gloves as a present for a respective significant other (oh, shucks). The pair, nonetheless, hit it off, and together they enjoy a wonderful, life-changing day. We know...
...later (long enough for them to reign in their haircuts, not long enough to be any less attractive). Sara has eased up on her kooky fate-talk but has filled the void by moving to San Francisco and becoming engaged to a bizarre Yanni-like musician. Jonathan, still in Manhattan, is about to marry a sweet-enough girl from a generic family. Neither of them, however, has forgotten That Night; and as their weddings approach, both of them set out to find their ‘soul mate’ (whether they’re prompted by a genuine urge...
...post-modern gloom of 20th-century America arose the constructed angst of a group of young urban lyricists. Hailing from the East Coast communities of Crooklyn, Mo’ Money Manhattan, the Boogie-Down Bronx and Illidelphia, or from across the wheated plains in the West Coast’s LBC, Compton and El Barrio, these poets raged with urban fury against “the man,” “the money,” “playa hatas” and “baby mamas.” The martyred poet Biggie Smalls...
Although they are fully equipped to carry out traditional facials and hair removal, aestheticians are most valued for their training in microdermabrasion, a relatively new rejuvenating technique that employs aluminum oxide crystals in exfoliating unwanted skin. According to one Manhattan-based plastic surgeon, the procedure reduces fine lines and wrinkles, removes age spots and lessens acne scarring. Why bother with boring disease research when you could give the gift of tight, child-like skin...