Word: manhattanization
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...good job in portraying the Gold clan in its glorious maelstrom of neurosis and fierce love for one another. The sets in which the characters sit, argue and agonize are marvelous. A salute should most definitely go to set designer Matthew Lavesque for the just-right yuppie Manhattan apartment, complete with a colorful DNA molecule model perched neatly on the television set--cheap symbolism, but it looks good...
...book that might offer William Bennett hope for America's cultural future. Mr. Ives' Christmas (HarperCollins; 248 pages; $23) is an homage to religious piety, unfailing modesty and moral rectitude. At the novel's center is Ives, a man who overcame his foundling-home beginnings to become a successful Manhattan illustrator and advertising executive. Despite his position, Ives lives a life devoid of bourgeois affectation. He gives to the poor, lusts for no one but his wife and refuses to judge those around him. He is a saint incapable of sanctimony...
FIDEL CASTRO COULD TAKE MANHATTAN if you let him [CUBA, Nov. 6]. He could persuade the U.S. to lift its trade embargo if he set Cuba free. How nice of him to shed his fatigues and don dapper new clothes. But he is still a devil--even if in a suit. The people he manages to impress never had to live in a communist country, never had to go hungry or be separated from their family. I am sick of people glorifying a man who is a criminal and who violates human rights. He tries to impress businessmen who want...
Police and political insiders remain stumped after the Watergate-style burglary Saturday at the Manhattan campaign headquarters of GOP presidential hopeful Malcolm "Steve" Forbes. "We're treating it as a typical break-in, a regrettable fact of urban life," Forbes campaign spokeswoman Gretchen Morgenson assured the Associated Press. "Until we know otherwise, that's what we're going to assume it is." There is ample fodder for conspiracy theorists nonetheless. The perpetrators removed a fax machine and a copying machine, left a computer and printer on and rifled through computer disks with lists of prospective Forbes supporters...
...first glance, the heroine-narrator of Susanna Moore's fourth novel, In the Cut (Knopf; 180 pages, $21), seems to fit perfectly into the polite cast of contemporary fiction. Frannie Thorstin, 34, lives on Washington Square in lower Manhattan, where the ghost of Henry James still whispers to the sensitive. She teaches creative writing in a city program for teenagers "of what is called low achievement and high intelligence." She is also writing a book on dialects and regional slang, particularly as they occur in the five boroughs of New York City. She notes, "The words themselves--in their...