Word: manhattanization
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...such victories are sporadic at best. Last spring a Manhattan and New Jersey discount clothier named Daffy's ran an ad showing a straitjacket with the caption, "If you're paying over $100 for a dress shirt, may we suggest a jacket to go with it?" Protesters picketed a store, wrote letters and petitioned the New York City Commission on Human Rights. A Daffy's spokesperson insisted that the ad was humorous and called the protest unfair...
...this multinational bank, but apparently took no action because it knew B.C.C.I. had strong links to CIA covert operations and to the illicit transfer of funds for the Nicaraguan contras and arms purchases for Iran. The Justice Department investigation of the criminal banking empire was so dilatory that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's own probe went far beyond the federal effort...
...baseball hat had humble beginnings. In 1851, the New York Knickerbockers, a band of poorly paid ballplayers who rarely travelled outside Manhattan, began wearing straw hats to keep the afternoon sun out of their eyes...
Holly Golightly and her nameless cat inhabit a barely furnished apartment in a Manhattan brownstone. Golightly peeks out from behind her door one morning to find that she has a new downstairs neighbor. Even wearing a wrinkled tuxedo shirt, a pastel blue sleeping mask pushed up on her forehead and purple-tassled earplugs in her ears, Hepburn conjures an almost unearthly elegance onscreen...
...week after her husband's Inauguration, Hillary Rodham Clinton is nibbling a salad in the Manhattan apartment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. On the face of it, the two First Ladies could not seem more different. The times dictated that Mrs. Onassis, now a respected editor at Doubleday, would confine her interests to interior decorating and haute couture. While Mrs. Onassis spent all of her time in the East Wing with her social secretary, Letitia Baldrige, Mrs. Clinton has moved into the West Wing of the White House with all the men, and for the next 100 days will...