Word: manhattanization
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...culture that appreciates beauty," says TIME People editor Michelle Orecklin. And as pundits looking back scramble to dismantle the "hunk" image ? John cared about the underprivileged, John cared about serious political issues, John was wise, and no lightweight ? note that those are not policy wonks tromping through lower Manhattan to leave notes and flowers on John and Carolyn?s North Moore Street doorstep. Overwhelmingly, they are the ones who bought the publications that plastered his face on the front page, again and again, and told the stories of John-John and Madonna, John-John and Daryl Hannah, John-John...
...emotions are cheapened, and the scene flops. Bill retaliates by diving into an underworld of sexual deviance that takes him far from the Upper West Side. In these strange scenes which valiantly try to capture the dream-like thread of Schnitzler's narrative, Kubrick effectively conveys the image of Manhattan as a series of portals to sex. Every street, every door is its own pathway to sexual fulfillment. But Cruise doesn't work within this symbolic environment. He's too one-dimensional--Cruise has never been capable of subtlety. The only realization he comes to is that...
Reportedly, it was Kennedy Schlossberg who made sure that Friday's memorial service was small and private, at an upper Manhattan church that their mother attended, instead of in a large cathedral where the world could freely gawk. And one saw her fingerprints on the decision to cremate John and his two fellow passengers and spread their ashes to the waves in a U.S. Navy "commitment at sea." (As son of the captain of PT 109 ?- and the commander-in-chief ?- John was certainly entitled; the courtesy was extended to include his wife and her sister.) To the accompaniment...
Disaster strikes on the way home, just before we hit the city. By then we're so comfortable with Map 'n' Go that when a road sign clearly says Manhattan and the computer says something else, we forget to rely on our common sense. All of a sudden we're lost in the slums of the Bronx at 11 p.m. For the next 10 minutes the little green arrow mockingly charts our circular course...
...Gore has already spent 42 percent of his purse on a busload of consultants and events like a do at Manhattan's Pierre Hotel that cost $7,500. Said Bush strategist Karl Rove: "We are the cost-conscious campaign...