Word: manhattanization
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...everybody has suddenly decided to get mad at actresses for smoking. At a press conference in Cannes, NICOLE KIDMAN bummed a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgaard and lit up, prompting criticism from antismoking groups. Meanwhile, Fox 5 News in New York City "caught" BRITNEY SPEARS smoking at a Manhattan club; a group called Smoke Free Movies ran a full-page ad in the New York Times screeching at JULIA ROBERTS to stop smoking onscreen; and earlier this month there was a kerfuffle when snapshots of a topless CATHERINE ZETA-JONES sneaking a ciggie while pregnant surfaced on the Internet...
...Corporation members who chose Pusey aimed for a sea change from Conant, a jet-setting chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and left Harvard abruptly in January 1953 to become President Eisenhower’s High Commissioner for Germany...
Lawson is in New York City to promote her latest cookbook, Forever Summer. We've decided to go on an eating date to three Manhattan restaurants of her choice--one each for appetizers, entrees and desserts. "Eating is more fun than cooking," she says, explaining why we won't be sampling any of her food. "Anyway, I don't cook professionally. I cook like someone who likes to eat. That's my niche." Lawson eschews things like measurements and specific ingredients (Forever Summer's grilled sea bass recipe begins, "You don't need to grill sea bass for this. Similarly...
...with only an elementary school education, Burroughs landed a job at Ogilvy & Mather and in short order became a Manhattan adman with a six-figure salary. "It was just thrilling," he remembers over lunch at the sort of expense-account restaurant frequented by Manhattan admen. "I thought I would end up in a mental hospital, or pumping gas for the rest of my life...
...finds Burroughs back on the streets of Manhattan--that cocktail tray of an island--fighting off cravings for booze, dating a beautiful, wealthy, crack-addicted Prince Charming and continuing his misadventures as a high-flying adman (the behind-the-jingles tour of the advertising world is worth the price of admission on its own). Beneath the quick-flowing, funny-sad surface of Burroughs' prose lurks considerable complexity: wherever he goes, whatever he's doing, you can feel how badly he wants to drink--as well as the sadness from which that desire comes and the courage it takes to make...