Word: manhattanization
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...philosophical question: Would you trade the ability to make certain facial expressions in order to look years younger or at least "well rested"? Maggie, a 52-year-old who wants to be identified only by her first name, would say yes. And so she is sitting in a Manhattan doctor's office having her forehead injected with a dozen or so shots of botulinum toxin A, or Botox, as it is known commercially. The toxin paralyzes local facial muscles and thus eliminates wrinkles caused by muscle contractions--in this case the worry lines in Maggie's forehead...
...perfect example. One of the features you get for $29 a month is a voice mailbox. Turn on the phone, and it instantly shows if messages are waiting. When roaming to areas not served by Sprint's digital net--like during my hour commute between Long Island and Manhattan--the phone is supposed to switch automatically to analog service. It didn't. Sprint's help line later cured the glitch. Now I can use the phone on the railroad--to call the trainshouter across the aisle and tell him to pipe down...
...Talk of the Town piece, one of those short, graceful, somewhat owlish essays that in those days were told with a royally editorial "we." John McPhee's excellent idea was to collar a geologist friend, visit the rock walls of a recent highway cut not far from Manhattan and relate what the newly naked stone told the geologist...
...week run that began at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is now at Washington's Kennedy Center--where its no-star production of Hamlet just set a house record. Helen Hunt, fresh from her Oscar, will star as Viola in Twelfth Night, opening in mid-July at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. R&J, a quirky, all-male version of Romeo and Juliet, is creating buzz off-Broadway. And just arrived in New York, following a nationwide tour and a stint in London, is Love's Fire, an evening of seven short plays inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets...
...MANHATTAN, KANS. No indoor furniture on outdoor porches...