Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...domestic terrorism, first raised by the World Trade Center bombing and then dismissed as a big-city phenomenon, may finally be driven home. For some time to come Americans will be struggling with questions that were supposed to draw no closer than Jerusalem or Belfast or, at worst, Manhattan. Just how much can they do to make life safer from terrorist attacks? And to accomplish that, how much should they be willing to give up in convenience, money and the freedoms they take for granted...
...dimensions to this version, while leaving the main plot intact. The film centers around excrook Jimmy Kilmartin (Caruso), who ends up caught between a corrupt Distcrict Attorney and an unforgiving mobster. Kilmartin, at the pleading of his cousin Ronnie, is coerced into driving a tuckload of stolen cars across Manhattan to an awaiting freighter. It is hard to forget the bizarre sight of four brightly lit trucks barreling through the streets of Manhattan. When the cops arrive on the scene, the rest of the drivers flee leaving Kilmartin to take the fall...
...Mirage, is ready to break more banks with his new Beau Rivage resort next year. The Grand's Kirk Kerkorian, when he's not plotting his takeover of Chrysler, looks at plans for his new hostelry, New York-New York, whose facade will be in the shape of the Manhattan skyline. Even the Walt Disney Co. is rumored to be looking at Las Vegas property-though Disney chairman Michael Eisner denies any interest in bringing Disney to Vegas...
Which they certainly will be in Antproof, a wonderfully strange and funny novel. Here's the hero, learning by the succession of paintings in his office that his position in a Manhattan bank is shaky. First his Rembrandt is replaced by a Durer: "Within a week, however, it too was gone, replaced by a Monet ... If someone were trying to send a message to me, they were being incredibly subtle. In fact they were. The next day, the Monet was gone and a Vuillard was in its place ... It was clear that all was not well." Wit at this level...
TIME Magazine reports that acting on a tip from the Japanese government, the U.S. prepared to raid the cult's midtown Manhattan office in March, before the Tokyo subway attack. An Air Force C-141 transport plane loaded with federal agents took off from Andrews Air Force base, but the raid was stopped when a federal judge would not issue a search warrant. The Associated Press reported today that the receptionist at the office said there was nothing there to interest federal agents. "We have nothing chemical here. Even the cockroaches...