Word: manhattanization
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...have been playing for months on end. If this race is as revolutionary and unpredictable as we keep being told it is, why leave its coverage to the lumpy, petit-bourgeois benchwarmers puttering around this or that Washington bureau? Only the master conjurers holed up in Hollywood studios and Manhattan high-rises, arbiters and alchemists of the American Zeitgeist, can save the ailing electoral beast.The problem is, there’s little left to be resolved. We’ve heard for weeks of the ‘mathematical impossibility’ associated with a Clinton victory, yet MSNBC keeps...
...This book constitutes the wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work.' J.K. ROWLING, the best-selling British author of the Harry Potter series, testifying in a Manhattan federal court against plans by a U.S. publisher to bring out the Harry Potter Lexicon...
...expert in nuclear fission who taught at Princeton and the University of Texas and authored five books, physicist John Wheeler--who coined the term black hole--was involved in many of the major scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. As a member of the Manhattan Project, he collaborated with Albert Einstein and others to create the atom bomb. Unlike some colleagues who agonized over the weapon's awful power, he regretted only that it hadn't been used sooner. He often recalled a letter from his brother, who was later killed in World War II, that read simply, "Hurry...
...showed how we all have a role in saving the planet, devoting our issue to 51 things that you can do to help alleviate climate change. This year, in an agenda-setting piece by Bryan Walsh, we roll up everything into one megaproposal, a kind of 21st century Manhattan Project, using carbon-trading, alternative energy and an efficiency surge to get the most out of every kilowatt we produce--all with the aim of winning the war on global warming...
...years. Today’s New York, of course, is nothing like it was 30—or even 15—years ago. For one, Rakowitz simply couldn’t afford to live in his old neighborhood in 2008. Furthermore, the old culture and climate of downtown Manhattan doesn’t exist anymore. Artist Dash Snow’s 2005 installation, “This Was Your Life,” takes the events of Rakowitz’s life as inspiration and tries to recreate the East Village of yesteryear. The piece is an amalgamated portrait...