Word: manhattanization
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...Manhattan, Kan., Michael Bishop threw for 216 yards and three TD passes before limping to the sideline and Eric Hickson broke Kansas State records for career rushing yards and rushing...
...place. The city is built on simulation, quotation, weird unconvincing displacements, in which cultural icons are endlessly but never convincingly quoted. Here is the Luxor Hotel, that huge silly pyramid with its plaster Anubises and fiber-glass Amon-Ras, its cavernous interior housing a facsimile of the Manhattan skyline. Here, under construction, is a casino in the form of the Doges Palace in Venice, complete with a small-scale version of the Campanile bearing a replica of the original's gilded angel on its vertex. Here too is Caesars Palace, looking like the architectural dream of an illiterate Mussolini...
...Everyone wants Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky," said Paul Blum, owner of Abracadabra in Manhattan's West Village, "but there's no mask for Lewinsky...
...first-year Harvard initiations won't include drinking the blood of a freshly killed bobcat or skinning and dressing an unlucky raccoon. Since most cronies of Harvard students will have never stood eye to eye with a grizzly bear, the bold graduate can add distinction to a Chase Manhattan application with bird calling and scat identification skills. Why wait until schmoozing with a client on a Maine hunting lease to accrue tracking abilities when a multitude of outfitters abound in the New England states? While more dainty Harvardians might disdain a mass of blood-encrusted feathers on their Prada bird...
Alison Kim '98 was an english concentrator in Leverett house. She is currently employed at an advertising firm in Manhattan...