Word: manhattanization
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...Twombly is the man who went backward. In 1957, when New York City had plainly overtaken Paris as the art world's center of gravity, Twombly, who was not yet 30, left Manhattan to settle for good in Italy. Even before that his art had been looking back in time to a lost classical world. His lifelong problem would be how to summon the past in a language that was absolutely of the here and now. He would solve that problem in some spectacular ways...
...month earlier, Manhattan Beach, Calif., adopted a similar ordinance, also over Joseph's objections and legal maneuvers. And last July, Joseph's home city of San Francisco became the first American metropolis to impose the ban. (Joseph has been on the case only since June, so that's not in his column...
...Watchmen footage was a nearly panel-by-panel representation of the graphic novel, which is set in an alternate 1980s world where Richard Nixon is still President, cold war tensions are high, and superheroes are being murdered. Snyder's teaser showed arresting visuals of the giant blue superhero Doctor Manhattan (Billy Crudup) atomizing some Vietcong, fellow crusaders Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) and Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) kissing while a mushroom cloud erupts in the background and the coarse Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) plunging to his death from a window, with the blood-spattered smiley face - the book's trademark - tumbling...
...Haley said he has relied on the novel's opinionated fans to help shape his performance. "I spent a lot of time with you guys, looking at your threads, looking at your blogs," he said. "I learned a lot from you about who Rorschach is." Crudup, whose Doctor Manhattan gained his powers after being locked inside a test chamber during a nuclear-physics experiment, said he prepared for the role by "changing my molecules, stuff that they don't teach you at drama school...
Farm aid, the annual concert dedicated to raising funds for the American family farmer, has been held in such agricultural strongholds as Manor, Texas, and Ames, Iowa. But the most recent venue, the distinctly nonrural borough of Manhattan, is not as incongruous as it seems. With its estimated 600 small-scale farms (which are often large-scale vegetable gardens), New York City is part of an urban agricultural boom in the U.S., where rising food and fuel prices are making city farming seem less and less outlandish. In July volunteers began transforming the front lawns of San Francisco's city...