Word: manhattanization
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...child, the condition and his size kept him from participating in sports. But he compensated by writing and illustrating his own books (starting at age six) and with music and humor and theater. He grew up in South Salem, New York, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, the son of Republican parents who owned a pair of women's clothing stores...
...York program, which would serve as the model for the Cambridge restrooms, began earlier this year when the city installed six coin-operated self-cleaning toilets on the streets in Manhattan...
...office, take tours of the underworld. When in doubt, go with the gangsters. Not every first-time director can make Citizen Kane; the budget, let alone the vision, would be out of reach. But a Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese's 1973 breakthrough film about a brotherhood of toughs in Manhattan's Little Italy, is something to shoot...
...exhibition of the works of the late Jean-Michel Basquiat that opened at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art last month is billed as a retrospective. It does cover the artist's working life: about nine years. But since it aims to present the deceased as the black Chatterton of Postmodernism -- the "marvellous boy," cut off in his prime by a drug overdose at the age of 27 -- it more resembles a parody of a funeral rite, performed over a slender talent encased in a sarcophagus grossly too large for it. There had to be room in that...
...unethical, the advisers retort, to apply regulations set by the government? Says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants, a Manhattan-based firm that advises families on aid strategies: "If your accountant showed you a legal way to save $4,000 on your income tax this year, would you take it?" What would really be unfair, he says, would be to deny parents information on the wisest use of the rules. "All we're trying to do is work within the system that exists now and help middle-income Americans benefit from some of their tax dollars," explains Rob Reid...