Word: manhattanization
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...operating officer, "is to make the store a good place to spend leisure time." Riggio's concept appears to be working. Superstores are expanding and multiplying (to the tune of 20% last year) and even stores whose main business isn't bookselling are aping the superstores' bibliophilic ambiance. In Manhattan's landmark Scribner's bookstore, fabled haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, a Benetton branch has set up shop and begun playing host to something called the Salon, a reading series featuring such swank young writers as Daphne Merkin, whose books will be on sale amid the turtlenecks...
Wald was born in Manhattan's lower East Side on Nov. 18, 1906, the youngest of three children...
...fact, the only relevant constituency that Amazon hasn't yet conquered is Bezos' ex-colleagues in lower Manhattan. So two weeks ago he made his big initial-public-offering play, announcing his intent to sell 2.5 million shares of stock for $29 million...
Nathaniel was working as a comic-book writer in Manhattan in 1995 when police in Burlington, Vermont, found his father's body in a flophouse. "I didn't know he was in Vermont--and sometimes homeless," Lachenmeyer, 27, admits. Propelled by curiosity and remorse, Lachenmeyer, who had no experience in filmmaking, hired a camera crew and set out to reconstruct his father's final years...
DIED. MARIE LAMBERT, 76, Manhattan Surrogate, judge who presided over the estates of the wealthy and famous, including Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman and Johnson & Johnson heir J. Seward Johnson; in New York City...