Word: manhattanization
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...Adam, a Manhattan nine-year-old who greets a reporter with a plastic fly on his outstretched tongue, remembers it differently. The parts he remembers, that is. (He's a little fuzzy on the audition: "That was a year and a half ago," he patiently explains.) Adam thought the work was "all fun," except for one scene where he had to wear leg braces, another where he rides a pony, and a few others where he was supposed to cry. Could Fred be someone Adam might know? "No, he's too smart for me." Could he exist somewhere? "It could...
...seven-year-old Canadian cosmetics company is giving some older firms a tough battle in one of the toughest of markets, Manhattan. Celebrities and just plain folks are streaming to the two outlets opened this year by M.A.C., which stands for Make-Up Art Cosmetics. Founded by Frank Yoskan, whose profession lends the company its name, M.A.C. expects its sales to increase 75% this year to more than $22 million. By the end of next year, the company's North American outlets will nearly double, to 70, including stores in Los Angeles and Miami. M.A.C.'s appeal is professional-quality...
Despite the helping hand of Jeanne Bernkopf, one of Manhattan's most experienced free-lance editors, Scarlett still needs a story stronger than girl chases boy. The excessive number of extended and inconclusive family gatherings recalls Mitchell's comment in Gone With the Wind: "When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel 20 miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month." Scarlett could also use a dose of Joyce Carol Oates' gothic intensity...
...hectic Saturday at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a harried shoe clerk hardly noticed his latest customer as he cleared a space in a mountain of shoe boxes and settled onto his stool -- but then he could hardly believe his eyes. Presenting her dainty soles to the happy salesman was IMELDA MARCOS...
...wave, asked AT&T to help out by switching over to its own power-generation equipment. AT&T is one of 141 companies in the New York area that earn lower electric rates by participating in a voluntary power-sharing arrangement. When AT&T's main transmission facility in Manhattan switched to its generator, a power surge tripped an emergency backup system powered by batteries. Alarms were triggered to alert AT&T employees that the backup system had been activated, but audio sirens malfunctioned, and visual warnings went unnoticed for more than five hours...