Word: manhattanization
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Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, has written a benchmark biography that fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell at his table at Manhattan's celebrity hangout, the Stork Club. Gabler captures everything except the essence of Winchell's breathless dot-dot-dot tabloid style. Never does the author parse an entire column or broadcast to make Winchell accessible to a generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables...
...work that combines audiotapes, relics and photographs to evoke the slave trade in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1990 Simpson was the first African- American woman artist to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. In that same year she had a solo exhibition in the Projects Room of Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...pathetic in society," D. Dayneen Preston, an executive manager at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, said in perhaps the evening's most critical comments. "We are some lazy people...
...white company," she said of her current employer, Chase Manhattan Bank. "But I didn't care. I was going to break that glass ceiling. That was my mission in life...
Crunch time has not begun yet for the young business jocks who want that Manhattan high rise apartment and the corner office, but students say pressure to land a job will certainly rise as graduation approaches...