Word: yo
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...hidden supply of booze, is even sillier. Again, contemporary audiences may be a little queasy about the condescension to dialect and folkways and the equation of black status with pseudowhite behavior. But there is a nonpareil score by George and Ira Gershwin (Someone to Watch Over Me, Clap Yo' Hands) and a display of solo and ensemble tap dancing, by Gregg Burge and a 16-member chorus under the direction of Dan Siretta, that is unsurpassed on Broadway...
...except to the sanity of adults. (Retail prices: $1.50 to $5.) One company to thank for this is Classic Items of Chicago. It has sold 2.5 million of its version, the Klika, since April. A Seattle company, Fascinations Toys and Gifts, has sold 900,000 of its Newton's Yo-Yo. Competition for the cacophonous market share is reaching a peak...
...word -- but a Yiddish word and a New York word are the same thing. It's true that you can detect an Italian bounce to some New York phrases, and it's true that white students at expensive Manhattan private schools are as likely as Harlem teenagers to shout "Yo!" when they come across a friend, but I think the basic structure and inflection of the language New Yorkers speak owe their greatest debt to Yiddish. The only purely New York word I can think of -- cockamamie -- sounds Yiddish, even thought it isn't. It means ridiculous or harebrained...
...Yo man, you're in my seat," Dattner said Wahlberg told...
CRIMSON editor Benjamin Dattner '92 described the scene: He was relaxing on a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta when Wahlberg accosted him. "Yo, man, you're in my seat," Wahlberg growled. When Dattner asked to see his ticket, Wahlberg rammed his fingers into Dattner's eyes, scratching his cornea. Then Wahlberg's bodyguards pinned Dattner to his seat while Donnie whaled away. The New Kids and their attorneys have yet to challenge Dattner's story...