Word: manhattanization
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...knack for being all things to all people, moving as easily among the blue collars of Islip as he did among the starched white collars of Southampton at a glittery party attended by wealthy liberals from Manhattan over the 4th of July weekend. At the 78th annual dinner of the Agudath Israel, he outschmoozed all the other pols there. He was at the center of a thousand bobbing black hats in the Hilton ballroom eager to get a closer look at the golden son of Italy who had come seeking their support. He seems to embody white-picket-fence family...
...York City's utility Con Ed disclosed that bills in the Big Apple will probably be 30% higher than last year's, thanks to rising fuel costs and an increasingly tight energy supply in the region. Coming a week after a brief blackout knocked out 140 customers on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side--and a year after a major one crippled an entire Washington Heights neighborhood for 19 hours--the admission further sullied Con Ed's bad reputation. John Dyson, chairman of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's council of economic advisers, expressed the official outrage: "It's hard to believe...
...power companies be short of power? Under deregulation, vertically integrated utilities like SDG&E and Con Ed (as in Edison, as in Thomas Edison, the man who electrified Manhattan) were allowed to sell their power-generation businesses and become middlemen that buy electricity on the open market from new generator operators and distribute it to their customers. "We work hard to find the best deal for our customers," says Steve Bram, Con Ed's senior vice president of central operations. "But we're at the mercy of the sellers." Those sellers, on the other hand, are at the mercy...
...gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of last Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The A.P. has already hit us," said Dave Lambert, 28, who was waiting with his girlfriend. "You've got two lines here, one interviewing the other." A p.r. woman called out, "Anybody need a sound bite from Scholastic?" A satisfied film...
...really? Spy's rarefied, Manhattan-centric humor wouldn't be likely to find a mass audience online, but the cheap, egalitarian Web has long been a haven for wisenheimers: the cutting commentary of Suck www.suck.com) the deadpan fake-newspaper Onion www.theonion.com and the esoteric wit of McSweeney's www.mcsweeneys.net) More recently, old media have tried to get Blair Witch-y with sites like Time Warner's Entertaindom www.entertaindom.com) whose flashy but lame Hollywood spoofs prove the rule that online humor is funny in inverse proportion to its budget. And even in the Web's grownup days of corporate sites...