Word: manhattanization
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Oksana did the Manhattan club scene. She bought the Mercedes. She snapped up a $450,000 house in Connecticut. "She had no parents to tell her to stop," says Gordeeva, a caring friend and, at the time, a neighbor. "When you're preparing for the Olympics, it is so completely consuming that you really don't have much else of a life," says Starbuck. "Consequently, you don't have a lot of wisdom or other life experiences. Before the Olympics you have someone holding your hand. Afterward, you're young and naive and vulnerable, and you don't always have...
...case with most musicologists, I started out as a musician," says Radano, who was raised in an upper-class suburb of Manhattan that he describes as "claustrophobic"--at least for an electric guitar playing teenager with hair grown down his back...
After the high school fascination with rock and some jazz, Radano became interested in experimental "new" music and avant-garde jazz when he went off to Rowan College in 1974, where he studied the intersections of jazz and art music and visited Manhattan often to work with many in-house ensembles that were blurring the lines between types of music...
...weeks the international museum world has been getting an increasing attack of the jitters over two works by the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Portrait of Wally, 1912, and Dead City III, 1911, were part of a large fall show of Schiele's drawings and paintings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, all on loan from the government-financed Leopold Foundation in Vienna. The two paintings have long been claimed by descendants of Viennese Jewish families from whom the Nazis stole them in the 1930s. Right at the end of the show--in fact only hours before...
...domestic scene. Positano, which is only two years old and still without a marketing staff or advertising budget, can be found in the Beverly Hills Macy's, smack between Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren. Ecko, which started selling clothes in 1995 from a two-story walkup in Manhattan's Washington Heights, had no department-store distribution when it grossed $36 million last year and was commissioned to design a 20-piece collection for The Lost World. But more than half the new street labels aren't really ghetto startups. They're vanity labels from music personalities like Wu-Tang, Simmons...