Word: manhattanize
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...Thanksgiving morning, after the turkeys are safely in the oven but before the green bean casserole preparations begin, Santa Claus will travel 2.5 miles down the streets of Manhattan - from 77th Street to Macy's department store at 34th Street - riding high atop his first new sleigh in over 40 years as the key figure in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...
...Harvey Milk story needs little Hollywood embellishment; it's already the perfect outsider fable. A Manhattan investment banker raised on Long Island, Milk arrived in San Francisco in the early '70s. He opened Castro Camera in the run-down Castro district, which was fast becoming an enclave for the not-yet-outspoken gay culture. With the aid of an unlikely ally, the Teamsters, he organized a boycott of Coors Beer, which at the time refused to hire gays. After three losing runs for a city supervisor seat, he won in 1977, and a year later he helped defeat Proposition...
...scenes. His job at NEC is designed to make him the captain of the team but avoid an unpleasant Senate confirmation hearing. Though smoother than Summers in style, Geithner will have to explain to the Senate Banking Committee just exactly what he was doing last year while all those Manhattan investment banks came unglued...
...either, the only other person as emotionally invested in my wedding as I am, because he's 9,000 miles away in Vietnam. After the big to-do, which we spent a year planning long-distance, he's back living and working in Saigon and I'm back in Manhattan - living with my grandmother. Talk about a letdown...
...Cooke wasn't some pretty Euro-boy, indulged by Manhattan plutocrats because they could count on him fill out a dinner table or bridge game. He had the gift of intelligent gab, and a mind that swiftly synthesized all he'd read and seen into what he knew the listener would find informative and attractive. He demonstrated that when Edward VII resigned after marrying Wallis Simpson (another American swell Cooke had met), and NBC radio hired him to cover the event: 10 days, 400,000 words virtually all ad-libbed...