Word: manhattanization
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...cramped confines of Manhattan's Paddy Reilly's Music Bar, where signs such as PARKING FOR IRISH ONLY adorn the wall, patrons are lifting their glasses and raising their fists. On stage, the Irish-American rock band Black 47 is launching into a combustible version of the title song of their debut album Fire of Freedom. "Let's get this place moving," bellows lead singer Larry Kirwan. "These are songs of freedom, revolution...
Last Thursday authorities paraded five of their six prime suspects -- Abohalima, Bilal Alkaisi, Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad and Ibrahim Elgabrowny -- into the U.S. District Court building in Manhattan's Foley Square. All five pleaded not guilty to charges related to the bombing. Ayyad, a chemical engineer, said, "I swear on the Koran, my wife, my children and my family and all I hold dear to me that I am not guilty and had nothing to do with this." The denials of the defendants notwithstanding, FBI and police investigators felt they had apprehended the core members of the terrorist conspiracy. Wider...
...beautiful young woman squirms on the rear seat of a taxi in midtown Manhattan, trying to get out of her tight skirt, and then, when she has managed to do that, squirms again, trying to wiggle into a second, somewhat tighter skirt. She succeeds, but the new skirt leaves no room for lingerie. Off come half-slip and panties. She leaves them on the taxi floor, with the old skirt. At her destination, as she pays the cabby, he nods at the new skirt. "Whatdja do, steal...
...work, had sacrificed my time and effort to it, and it stopped working." She was baptized in January 1992 and began attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and working in a homeless shelter. Four years ago, Redeemer was a 15-member Bible-study group on Manhattan's Upper East Side. "I said, let's not build a church for us," recalls Pastor Timothy Keller. "Let's build a church for your friends who don't go to church." It now has 1,200 members, half of whom had not been affiliated with a church...
...fourth and final volume of John McPhee's "Annals of the Former World" series, his reports on the new geology that began running in the New Yorker back in the Shawnian Era. That was before the Albion Shift uplifted Tina Brown from London and thrust her toward Manhattan, where she eventually docked as the magazine's new editor...