Word: manhattanization
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...born to poor folk in Top Hill. He literally came to America on a banana boat, a United Fruit Co. steamer that docked in Philadelphia. He went to work for Ginsburg's (later named the Gaines Co.), manufacturers of women's suits and coats at 500 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's garment district. He started out working in the stock room, moved up to become a shipping clerk, and eventually became foreman of the shipping department...
...arts of governance and electioneering. But here it is: George, a slick bimonthly named for our nation's first President. More memorable than the twee title is the name at the top of George's masthead: John F. Kennedy Jr., a former assistant district attorney who is now Manhattan's most glamorous editor in chief, Tina Brown and Anna Wintour notwithstanding...
...show of Stettheimer's paintings at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, titled "Manhattan Fantastica," is a fairly irresistible event. You would need to be a bear not to enjoy its charm, its faux-naif artifice, its overwhelming campiness and its evocation of a period in the history of the American art world be tween the wars that now, at the sour close of the 20th century, seems remote and glittering, like something enclosed in a bell jar. This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News...
Unlike Disney's lightning-quick buy of Cap Cities, the Time Warner-Turner deal is a work in progress. At week's end, at Time Warner's Manhattan headquarters, negotiations proceeded urgently. But the very announcement set off Wall Street speculation that other moguls, such as General Electric chairman Jack Welch and News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch, would enter the bidding for Turner. But Murdoch denied any interest; and GE indicated that while it would not try to break up this deal, it remained interested in Turner if the Time Warner acquisition failed. Says Harold Vogel, a media analyst...
...that his stores' names not be associated with the ads. At least one major magazine, Seventeen, refused to carry the campaign. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association wrote to 50 retailers, threatening a boycott of their stores. Pickets were expected at the opening of Klein's flagship emporium in Manhattan on Sept. 7. That was enough for Klein to conclude that his message--"the inner worth of today's young people"--wasn't flying...