Word: manhattanization
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...years, there was nothing like it in the history of the world: the Empire State Building. Rising from midtown Manhattan during the bitter dawn of the Great Depression, its 6,500 windows, 10 million bricks and then record 102 stories became an instant urban icon. A movie encounter with King Kong in 1933 only added to the building's reputation...
...usually involuntary: circulation to the extremities, tension in the jaw, heartbeat rates and even pupil size (for advanced students). "If you studied yoga for years, you might be able to get the same effect," says Dr. Elliot Wineburg, assistant professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan...
Many therapists are cross-fertilizers, picking up bits of different disciplines. Greer Jonas does reflexology with some aromatherapy thrown in; she is also licensed for Swedish massage. Jonas works in her clean, well- lighted apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Hanging crystals tinkle before an open window. Brown and blue bottles of lavender, rosemary and rose essence exude their fragrances. Lavender relaxes the client, Jonas advises. Rosemary "breaks up fibrous tissue" when massaged into a woman's breasts. "The body holds a lot of memories," she says. "You touch an area, and sometimes the person starts to cry." Jonas...
...break the mold, Marden in the mid-'80s started doing calligraphic drawings, not with a brush but with twigs of ailanthus wood -- ailanthus being the common weed tree that grows in every sidewalk crack in Lower Manhattan but is known to the Chinese as the tree of heaven. Stuck in a long holder and dipped in ink, these flexible little sticks delivered a blobby, rough line, far from the look of classical brush drawing but with some of its improvised character...
...bond. He was, says biographer Robert Lacey, the master of "the share-out," the cash skimmed in the counting rooms of gambling casinos and delivered in tidy, untaxed bundles to silent partners. Some of the scariest, Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, were his friends from bootlegging days on Manhattan's Lower East Side. After the repeal of Prohibition, Lansky moved into organized gambling, where his pals continued to provide the muscle while he supplied the brains...