Word: manhattanization
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...linchpin of Gates' strategy is getting the manufacturers of these machines to modify them so they will run his new programs. Judging by the blue-chip companies that will be sharing the dais with him when he unveils his system this week at the Hotel Macklowe in midtown Manhattan -- Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, Compaq Computer, Minolta, McCaw Cellular, Canon, NEC and Northern Telecom -- he seems to have made remarkable progress. Says Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future: "This may not be it, but it is one more step toward the Holy Grail of the paperless office...
Good things -- from democracy in South Africa to major political interviews -- are often long in the planning. In May of last year, deputy managing editor John F. Stacks, while lunching in Manhattan with Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod, hatched the idea of conducting paired interviews with Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk. The sessions, Stacks reasoned, might be not only newsworthy but historic...
...family (including David's brothers Michael and Peter) resides in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., a bedroom community of 7,018 about 55 minutes from Manhattan...
WHERE: MARLBOROUGH GALLERIES, MANHATTAN; P.S. 1, LONG ISLAND CITY...
...always hoping to see forbidden sights. Sliver's vulgar lure is that we will be allowed to peep at Sharon Stone in various stages of undress, in a variety of compromising positions. Its somewhat more interesting premise is that she is a projection of our watching selves, a respectable Manhattan publishing-house editor named Carly Norris, who is herself drawn into voyeurism. In other words, we are invited to watch a watcher as she learns to like watching, and to reflect -- not very deeply, it must be said -- on the consequences that accrue to her as a result...