Word: manhattanization
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...comic tramps, the movies were America's most glamorous way of advertising itself to the world. The bustling genius of the American system ensured that to a Peruvian or a Perugian, "the movies" meant Hollywood. And the stars bred within that system sold the movies' myth about America. A Manhattan penthouse became the top of the world when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through it; the canyons of Arizona were the promised land as long as John Wayne patrolled them...
...dark and forbidding depths of the Gulf of Mexico, once frequented by only the hardiest of sea creatures, are now alive with human activity. Miniature submarines and robot-like vehicles prowl the ocean bottom while divers wend their way around incredible underwater structures -- taller than Manhattan skyscrapers but almost totally beneath the surface of the waves. This is the new geological frontier, and a daring breed of modern-day explorers is using technology worthy of Jules Verne and Jacques Cousteau to find fresh supplies of oil and natural...
...Thatcher foundation would not lack funds, since her memoirs could fetch as much as $8 million, plus an additional $2 million for serialization rights. "I am sure it would command one of the highest prices ever paid for a political memoir," says Lynn Nesbit, a literary agent based in Manhattan who counts Jimmy Carter among her clients. Other publishing insiders even suggest that Thatcher's autobiography would fare better in the U.S. than Ronald Reagan's, which was published last month to disappointing sales. The advance given to Reagan, in a deal that included a book of speeches: a reported...
...wide-eyed belief of Culkin, 10, in the script's improbabilities is what makes them believable to the audience. A Manhattan native, he has been acting since he was four and has been around actors -- his own family -- all his life. His father Christopher has appeared in off-Broadway plays; his aunt is Bonnie Bedelia, who played Harrison Ford's wife in Presumed Innocent; and three of his five siblings are actors (the other two are too young). Culkin's biggest previous role was as John Candy's nephew in 1989's Uncle Buck...
Wally Rubin, 35, an assistant in the office of Manhattan borough president Ruth Messinger, has grown his hair for a year, partly, he says, "because it was practical." It was also his way of keeping alive the Age of Aquarius. While Michael Aymar, 32, was on Wall Street as a bond trader, he kept his hair short, following an unwritten code. But last year, yearning for his student days, he asked his bosses at an ad agency if there was a policy on hair length. He got no reply, and today his ponytail is 4 in. long...