Word: manhattanization
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Each summer Time goes to battle, well, to bat, against the likes of the New York Times and Newsweek in the softball fields of Manhattan's Central Park. This Publishers League season, however, did not begin well. Said captain Lamarr Tsufura, who troubleshoots computer problems during the off-season: "We had a disastrous game on opening day." But ya gotta believe...
...forget her gauzy white skirt billowing over a subway-grating updraft in The Seven Year Itch? Alas, New York police confirmed the outfit is missing and presumed stolen from a Manhattan warehouse. Also gone: some letters written by the actress to her acting coach, Lee Strasberg...
...nondescript suits and owns the same three- bedroom home in Newton, Massachusetts, that he and his wife Phyllis paid $42,000 for 35 years ago. He favors the less fancy Pine Brook Country Club in nearby Weston over the prestigious Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline. He spends weekdays in Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel to be near Viacom headquarters. Often rising at 5 a.m., he reads the morning papers and then works out on a treadmill while watching TV. His days last up to 18 hours. "I live modestly," Redstone says. "Possessions don't count. Achievement counts. Winning counts...
...real estate holdings in the U.S. Executives hope to save $250 million a year by breaking or renegotiating leases and renting out or selling surplus space -- including the company's former North American headquarters in Purchase, New York, and 300,000 sq. ft. of a Manhattan high-rise...
...bonfire under the vanities, but the big lug from Asheville, North Carolina, who said you can't go home again. Symptoms of the disease are truly terrible: a bloviation of the prose, with cliches clanging at irregular intervals; a golly-gee nostalgia for the glitz of Manhattan when one was , young, yearning and oh-so-talented; and, for a few, an incurable lust to strew names like sunflower seeds...