Word: manhattanization
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...ancestors were driven out of Portugal, who chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books, his vision, during a later visit to a Manhattan museum, of an "epiphanic detail," a "slash of pink on the inner thigh/of a white hound" in a painting by Paolo Veronese...
...fall back, we fall back. But come this Sunday at 2 a.m., I--in the noble tradition of Mohandas Gandhi and Frank Bruno--will nonviolently resist. And on Monday, like Martin Luther King Jr., I will sit alone with a pen and paper and draft my "Letter from a Manhattan Restaurant Where I'm Alone Because I'm an Hour Late to Meet a Friend...
...Indian model, author and New York City society gal PADMA LAKSHI. Rushdie, who is still married to his London-based third wife Elizabeth West, met Lakshi at the launch party for Talk magazine in New York last July. The two have been seen at movies and restaurants around Manhattan, where Rushdie moves without the accompaniment of his security squad. What would make a man risk so much? Perhaps Lakshi's portentously titled cookbook, Easy Exotic, says...
Before this period, human ancestors inhabited the trees, and size differences between males and females were much more pronounced. Wrangham said that, anytime during the Homo period, after the harnessing of fire, if a human ancestor were to put on modern clothes, a hat, and strut down Manhattan, he would not be noticed...
Sony's rival, Sega, will be well entrenched with its Dreamcast console, which will have a library of 200 games by the time PlayStation 2 arrives. Even the Nintendo Dolphin, a device currently shrouded in more mystery than the Manhattan Project, will probably beat the X-box to the living room--and with a passel of popular Pokemon and Mario Bros. titles too. "People go for the games first," warns Jim Merrick, Nintendo USA's technical director. "Only then do they think about what system it comes with...