Word: yorkerism
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...some guy looking though the recycling bin. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was looking for a New Yorker [magazine]. We always get a few extra New Yorkers so I always make sure to stick an extra one in his box,” Romeo says...
...magazines are canaries in the economic coal mine, Talk sang louder and in a cage more gilded than your average hunting-and-fishing monthly. Brown, a British expatriate with an outsize personality, had revitalized the moribund Vanity Fair and given the tweedy weekly New Yorker a pop-culture makeover. But doubt swirled around Talk from early on. In the era of niche media, many doubted whether readers wanted another major general-interest magazine, particularly one whose mix of Hollywood froth and high-minded reportage largely resembled Vanity Fair's. Its editorial vision--vaguely alluded to as starting a national "conversation...
...longest-running musical; in New York City. Loosely adapted from the 1894 play Les Romanesques and playing off-off Broadway, the spare production of eight actors, a piano and a harp ran for 17,162 performances after opening on May 3, 1960. CLOSED. TALK MAGAZINE, brainchild of former New Yorker editor Tina Brown and chronicler of celebrities and popular culture; in New York City. Publishers Miramax Films and Hearst Corp. cited the poor business climate after Sept. 11 as the reason for its demise. RELEASED. WANG CE, 52, democracy advocate, from prison for good behavior; in Zhejiang, China. Head...
...second marriage, to socialite-journalist Ellin Mackay (she wrote for a new magazine called The New Yorker), earned more headlines: the Lower East Side Jew marrying the Upper East Side Catholic, with her father bitterly opposed to the union. It was the first big showbiz-society merger. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a retrospective piece on the early 20s, noted that at that time "society and the native arts had not yet mingled - Ellin Mackay was not yet married to Irving Berlin." The two wed in 1926 and honeymooned abroad. The Social Register refused to mention the couple's return...
...refocused his bountiful energy on a tragedy the likes of which no American mayor had ever faced. Clearly in charge, exhausted but never flagging, he became a symbol of strength, comforting a traumatized city (and nation) by being himself - proud, fallible, exceedingly decent and, above all else, a New Yorker...