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...sensibilities matured over the decades, Berlin adjusted some songs to avoid offense. The 1927 "Shakin' the Blues Away" begins: "Every darkie believes that trouble won't stay if you shake it away." Later it was changed to "Everybody believes..." "Puttin' on the Ritz" was originally about Manhattan whites going uptown: "Why don't you go where Harlem sits/ Puttin' on the Ritz/ Spangled gowns upon a bevy/ Of high browns from down the levee/ All misfits/ Puttin' on the Ritz." By the time Fred Astaire sang the tune in 1946, it had become another of Berlin's twittin'-the-rich...
...than just to baseball fans. It was to the city of New York, to represent them and bring a smile to their face." Downtown, in the Battery, the smoldering pyre of the World Trade Center was grudgingly yielding the bodies of fire fighters and cops killed in the attack. Uptown, in the Bronx, Yankee Stadium had become a cathedral of catharsis, the participants emptying their lungs at full volume, as if exhaling a cheer for Jorge Posada ("Hip hip Hor-hay!") might rid them of some of the pain and anxiety of Sept...
...didn't lose any family members. We can manage with the other things," says Terry Lautin, 40, a mother of two kids. But while looking for a new apartment, Lautin, a real estate agent, has been in need of work, and her kids' schools have been relocated further uptown. The toughest moment was when the family had to say goodbye to two people who decided to leave New York, including Lautin's 78-year-old mother, who had lived with her. "She had a full life here. But once we started moving, we couldn't move Grandma from place...
...psychiatric wards. A man arrives at the armory where families of the missing gather and offers to help resurrect the dead. "Suddenly every night is a full moon," a Bellevue psychiatrist says. The downtown folks are frustrated that they still don't have phones and that people uptown are getting pedicures done as though nothing has changed. "She's trying to isolate herself," says a downtown refugee of her uptown sister-in-law. "She doesn't want to accept reality at all." Meanwhile some uptown people feel brave for not having sold their condos and decamped for Vermont. Others have...
...terrorist winter, surrounded by men and women working day and night to help the living and recover the dead. He had come to thank the people the whole world wanted to thank--the cops and fire fighters, the pipe fitters and welders who had left their jobs uptown to pull up the ruins downtown, the paramedics working 36-hour shifts. As much as anyone or anything, it was the images of these people doing their grim, ceaseless work that kept the country together. Bush was at home among them...