Word: manhattanization
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...prosecution insists that she was in on the plot to use a fortune in bribes and plunder to buy a piece of Manhattan worth more than $160 million. Her lawyers paint a different Imelda Marcos. The First Lady of the Philippines, they say, was a woman innocently cooling her thousands of pairs of heels as the machinations of Malacanang Palace buzzed around...
...their country has made ample attempts to open its marketplace to U.S. goods, the increasingly noisy drumbeats from Washington have created fear that the bilateral relationship is faltering. "There is a great deal of concern about the outright hostility in Washington that exists against Japan," says Sam Nakagama, a Manhattan economist. "Americans don't seem to care about this, but it is paramount in Japan." Trade negotiators reached an agreement last week to allow Japanese universities and government agencies to import U.S. supercomputers. But the two sides have made little progress so far in related talks over satellites and lumber...
Last year Garry Marshall directed a brisk, witty movie starring Bette Midler as a lottery winner who chases her elusive ticket through Manhattan. The film, shown daily at Disney-MGM Studios park in Florida, lasts three minutes. Beyond that length Marshall has trouble freshening a familiar theme. But maybe predictability is the point of Pretty Woman, which may be a hit just because it descends to its audience's expectations. This is old-fashioned, assembly- line moviemaking without the old panache. It makes one ask, Can't the Japanese do it better? Couldn't anybody...
...been poor. His father was one of Canada's most prominent businessmen, as well as a Member of Parliament; his mother was a Labatt, as in Labatt's beer. After making a brief bow to family sensibilities by attending McGill University, he headed south in the early '30s, to Manhattan, where he studied acting. The great George Abbott gave him his first big break and taught him the rough-and-tumble art of farce, an athletic, physical approach to his craft that he has since used in more cerebral roles. Cronyn has also picked up his share of honors, including...
...City's Rockefeller Center, a Tokyo conglomerate has made a bid for the landmark across the street: Saks Fifth Avenue. In what would probably result in the biggest Japanese stake in American retailing, the Tobu department store conglomerate, together with the managers of Saks, has offered to purchase the Manhattan icon and the 45 other Saks stores from their London-based parent, B.A.T. Industries...