Word: manhattanization
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...York City's security systems have been among the strictest in the country since Sept. 11, 2001. But the city learned today that those measures are not infallible, after a gunman entered City Hall in Manhattan and shot a councilman to death...
Maybe so. But even Maguire can't keep his guard up forever. In the best scene in Spider-Man, Parker realizes he has superpowers and is so psyched about it that he goes running off over the Manhattan rooftops. In a way, Maguire plays the same scene again in Seabiscuit. Howard takes his new horse and his new jockey out to the country to open them up and find out what they can do, and we see for the first time what a miracle they have on their hands. Talking about the scene, Maguire sounds almost mesmerized. "I think what...
...income housing at the Enterprise Foundation; serving on Harvard University's managing council; and, most famously, chairing the New York Public Library, which he helped bring back from financial ruin, along the way restoring Bryant Park, the jewel of greenery behind the library's main building in midtown Manhattan. In his private life, his third marriage, to Marian Sulzberger Dryfoos, of the family that has published the New York Times since 1896, was a true marriage of spirits...
...just biotechnicians. They must make judgments about, yes, the soul. Before serving a patient's will, doctors have to decide whether it is perverse and self-destructive. One has to ask what kind of plastic surgeon would repeatedly do his work on Michael Jackson. Or on the Manhattan socialite, known now as the cat woman, who had her face tweaked so many times that it changed inexorably into that of a feline...
...Cronyn, who is 78, headed south [from Canada] in the early '30s, to Manhattan, where he studied acting... A small, wiry man with wispy hair and seemingly inexhaustible energy, Cronyn [says]... 'Our theater apes film and television... You'll see it in scripts. Audiences now have far less tolerance for long passages of dialogue than they used to. And you can't talk to me or to anybody my age in which you don't hear a sort of old fart's moan about the fact that it's much more difficult now for kids to learn the craft...