Word: yorker
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...Yorker and this film was shot during a frigid Chicago winter in the mainly Hispanic neighborhood of Humboldt Park. Have you shot there before...
...high index of power distance,” according to Gladwell, which is a term from cross-cultural psychology describing the hesitancy of underlings to question superiors. This cultural phenomenon caused the Colombian co-pilot to speak timidly to the air traffic control booth’s gruff New Yorker. Even as the plane was running out of gas and was in grave danger of crashing, the Colombian co-pilot did not assert the need for the plane to land. When asked, according to the flight log, “Is that okay with you and your fuel...
...When a New Yorker named James Brunot contacted Butts about mass-producing the game, he readily handed the operation over. Brunot's contributions were significant: he came up with the iconic color scheme (pastel pink, baby-blue, indigo and bright red), devised the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles to make a word, and conceived the name "Scrabble." The first Scrabble factory was an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Connecticut, where Brunot and several gracious friends manufactured 12 games an hour. When the chairman of Macy's discovered the game on vacation and decided to stock his shelves with...
...card-carrying feminist, but I wanted to prove to myself that food and gender go together.” Despite the sub rosa discontent that pervaded the library in the early years of the collection, Haber persisted. In 2005, the Food Issue of The New Yorker credited Haber as having “invented the history of women and food,” and in 2007, when Drew G. Faust, then the Dean of Radcliffe, held a conference about Food and Gender, Haber knew the field had arrived.Despite the historically lukewarm reception of the culinary arts, many Harvard alumni have...
...working life, was a grocer in Kansas City. Why would anybody be interested in a Kansas City grocer to whom nothing really dramatic happened? Why would anybody want to read it? I only wrote the book about my wife after David Remnick, the [current] editor of the New Yorker, asked if I had ever thought about doing one. You're never quite sure what readers are going to take away from what you write. The book about my wife, to some people, was a book about love and marriage. I just wanted to write about my wife...