Laurie E. Colwin, a novelist and writer of short stories on modern urban romance and life, died yesterday at her home in Manhattan.

She stands at a blackboard and likens writing to dance, the travails of Romeo and Juliet to an interethnic, urban romance.

Leonard Bernstein's first ballet score remains evergreen, filled with jazz and Latin rhythms, as well as urban romance.

The second tangible result is from another column about urban romance.

Surely few bridges in the world have been as feted as the Brooklyn Bridge, but there are others in the city capable of inspiring urban romance.

"Carried Away" might itself be an alternate title for a show in which three sailors on leave swing headlong into a 24-hour celebration of urban romance.

And urban romance.

Devesh Sharma of Filmfare gave the movie 3/5 stars, concluding that "All-in-all, it's a nice urban romance.

Legend aside, the ferry is an undisputed locus of urban romance.

At this point the movie's soundtrack enters the girl-group era, when gritty tales of urban romance were packaged in pretty Top 40 hits.