Word: manhattanization
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...apartment in Manhattan this summer had access to cable, introducing me to HBO's "Sex In the City"--a work of pure television genius. The show exposes the lives of four swanky Manhattan women, complete with their thoughts about and justifications for their risqu escapades. Just as important, the show sells itself on sex. Advertisements feature the main character posing, legs spread, above the Empire State Building. Gratuitous displays of nudity and sex-kitten ensembles are encouraged, if not expected...
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, improvise accents he imagined might match them...
Sometimes the slap comes out of nowhere. I remember taking a leisurely walk in my neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper West Side when a little girl dashed over from one end of a schoolyard to start cackling nonsense syllables at me. At first I wondered what was going on. Then I realized she was speaking mock Chinese. At the U.S. Open tennis tournament a few weeks ago, an attendant managing the crowd rather rudely shoved me against a wall. I asked why, and he suddenly became aware that I spoke English. He then said, "Use the other exit." And more...
...plight might elicit sympathy from the three other blonds Bushnell depicts: the journalist who learns to appreciate her frequently cuckolded husband only after sleeping with his best friend; the sedated socialite discovering that marriage to a European prince isn't all it's cracked up to be; and the Manhattan society columnist sent to London to uncover the real story of sex in the British Isles...
That was the consensus of TIME's Board of Economists, which gathered in Manhattan to take stock of the economic background to the presidential race now getting into full swing. The group included advisers who have helped shape both the Bush and Gore programs, and they disputed--though with remarkably little heat--the merits of those plans. But Democrats, Republicans and nonpartisan professionals all agreed on the fundamental outlook. And they left more than a hint that it would change little, if at all, no matter who wins the White House...