Word: manhattanization
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...NIGHTCLUB IN DOWNTOWN Manhattan is swarming with reporters, cameramen, Internet bohemians and online celebrities, people with handles like "Mnemonic," "Razor" and "Garbled Uplink." The center of attention -- a fashionably wan, cigarette-smoking ex-con known as Phiber Optik -- shows up an hour late, even though the party is in his honor. Phiberphest '95, they're calling it. Onstage is a band called Foamola, consisting of a bald male organist, a homeless man playing what appear to be a pair of rocks and a female vocalist who yowls, "When I read a book, I always read Balzac!/ When I take...
...attended the U.N. International School in Manhattan, an academically rigorous haven for the children of diplomats, wealthy Manhattanites and scholarship students. There she met a white boy named Michael Fitzpatrick, whom a contemporary recalls as "a wild, wild kid" and who would pop up in her life later. Although some of her sisters attained a measure of celebrity, Qubilah lived out of the public eye. She had a child, now a teenager, whom she named Malcolm. She lived several years in France, reportedly working as a journalist...
...time, as I found out at dinner at Patsy's, one of Rush's favorite Manhattan restaurants, which he enters through a side door. He's here against his better judgment, since the Mainstreamliberalpress insists on misunderstanding him. "I'm not a hater, not one of the angry radio guys. I'm an entertainer with a conservative agenda who wouldn't have 20 million listeners if I spewed venom. Yet you liberals lump me in with all the others," he says, lumping me in with all the others. This is surprising, since I have a history of giving Rush...
...videos rather than rent them, so he doesn't have to take them back. (His latest purchase was Philadelphia.) For a social life, he has "the Mosbachers -- that's it as far as New York society goes -- and they're friends." The one thing he likes about Manhattan is that everything can be delivered...
...have a really young team," DeNunzio said. "We just have to keep on working hard." Manhattan 18 Harvard...