Word: manhattanization
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...look to this year's crop of new toys if you're seeking some good, clean fun. Virtually every major manufacturer showing its wares at last week's 89th Toy Fair in Manhattan was accentuating the nauseating...
...visitor to Coleman's office on Manhattan's West 54th Street may feel as if he's stumbled upon the remains of Tin Pan Alley: over there is the old upright piano on which Cy has scored most of his songs, and next to it the thousand- year-old desk, and everywhere theater posters and photographs ("He just keeps putting them up till the wall is full," says his secretary). And through the window pipe the New York City street noises that have inspired the American song ever since Irving Berlin first picked them up in the 1900s...
...wearing an unabashedly garish $60 tie or a $255 men's long-sleeve shirt blaring BEST SEX I EVER HAD, HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR or RUN DOWN LIKE A DOG? At stores like Bloomingdale's, Saks and Bullock's, as well as the Nicole Miller shop in Manhattan, such clothing is selling faster than an extra-edition sex scandal. And you can forget about wearing the news discreetly under your suit. The $55 silk boxer shorts, like most of the other items, are already sold out. In just one week, sales topped $100,000. Says Nicole Miller...
Concerned about her own risk, Wexler dated but never married. Then she met -- and now lives in Manhattan with -- Dr. Herbert Pardes, head of the Columbia University medical center. "Around the time we found the marker for Huntington's, I found Herb, and it's been wonderful and fantastic," she says. "I've since realized how wrong it was for me to avoid sharing my life with someone. I held back not only because of doubts about passing the gene on to my children but because it would be unfair for my mate to be burdened, financially and emotionally, with...
...Zuckerman's--her present husband and agent--several children from a previous marriage, including a son who is at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Not coincidentally, the novel she is working on at present, Blessing in Disguise, is about being a stepmother and a writer in Manhattan...