Word: manhattanization
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Same with cheerful. The Manhattan, Kan. resident's walls are decorated with inspirational posters celebrating "Excellence," "Fitness," "Nature" and "Courage...
...soon dancing in a Schweppes orange-soda commercial. At 17 she earned raves as a teen temptress in the loopy sex farce Jamon Jamon. "I cried when the movie ended," she says, in the lilting English she learned during two years of dance study in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, "but I also knew that film was going to be my life...
When he was a child living in Manhattan while his father worked for the United Nations, the boy who was to become Britain's Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling passed his happiest hours staring out his apartment window at the passing parade. He would imitate the funny walks he saw, improvising accents he imagined might match them...
...makers cheerfully admit, Ed (NBC, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.) has the quirky mooseprints of Northern Exposure all over it. Hence the yuppie Green Acres premise: man (Tom Cavanagh) is cuckolded by wife, loses Manhattan law-firm job, buys bowling alley in Stuckeyville, Ohio, opens a legal practice amid the tenpins and romances his high school love (Julie Bowen). Hence too the oddball characters: the preening slacker selling Kobe beef behind the bowling-shoe counter, the doddering magician suing a rival for revealing his secrets...
...Akan language of Ghana, akwaaba means welcome, and that is exactly what guests receive at the Akwaaba Mansion bed-and-breakfast in the heart of Brooklyn, N.Y., just a 20-minute subway ride from midtown Manhattan. On a brownstone-lined street in the historic Stuyvesant Heights district, canopied by magnolia, beech and horse chestnut trees, sits an 18-room white Italianate mansion, dating to the 1860s, that Monique Greenwood and her husband Glenn Pogue bought and restored five years...