Word: manhattanization
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Fenway Park--commissioned in 1912 before World War I--is an artifact that makes Boston baseball unique. A new stadium in the Fens changes forever the meaning of "Red Sox nation." A new culture of Boston Red Sox baseball will emerge. Will Back Bay become the Manhattan of Boston? Who is getting rich from attempts by Harrington and Menino to make Back Bay and the Fens more like Manhattan and Central Park...
...FAVORITE MOVIES: Metropolitan, Vanya on 42nd Street, A Fish Called Wanda, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Broadcast News, Animal House, The Last Picture Show, Manhattan, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blade Runner, Richard III (‘95), Moonstruck, The Big Chill, Pulp Fiction, Tootsie...
...Prior to daily one-on-one lessons with her coach, Weiss would take several adult classes at Manhattan's famous Steps studio. "The classes were open to the public," she explains. "So it was basically like 40-year old women and me!" Weiss chose a more conventional pre-professional path during the summers, attending programs at the San Francisco Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet...
...outside the Roth Horowitz gallery in New York City. (The pictures are not for sale.) Nearly 100 have been assembled in a devastating new book, Without Sanctuary (Twin Palms Publishers; 209 pages; $60). An exhibit drawn from the book opened recently at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan and runs through July...
...Though Virginian by birth, Wolfe has made Manhattan his home for decades, and while he still uses his drawl for dramatic effect, it usually lies dormant. On the one hand, Wolfe casts an ironic eye on modern culture and preaches a return to more brutal instincts. On the other, he lives the life of a foppish Manhattan novelist. Like Pappy Mason, Wolfe says his soul has been wrankled by challenges to his manliness. Wolfe's example: once in New York, during a snowstorm, another man took a cab from him and he had to wait a long time for another...