Word: yorkerism
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...Yorker who wants to fly to San Francisco. You're interested in traveling on a Friday and returning the following Wednesday. When you start checking ticket prices, you notice the Friday evening flights and the Wednesday afternoon flights are going for about twice the price of flights at less desirable times of day. What do you do: Take the flights that best fit your plans, no matter what the cost? Or fly at less convenient times to save some money...
Innocent casualties have a brief news life; others are sure to follow. But Wilentz, a former TIME writer who served as Jerusalem correspondent for the New Yorker from 1995-97, uses the methods of fiction to examine an event that is both achingly personal and inescapably political through the minds of the people most affected by it. Good journalists don't claim to know what their subjects are thinking; good novelists do so for a living...
...Show" star; for 30 years he's played a doofus Carson, a smug buffoon. "Please," he said during his nine-minute opening monologue, "hold your applause until it's for me." Now, we know that the real Steve Martin, whoever that may be, is an art collector and New Yorker humorist. So after Billy Crystal's wisenheimer tumling and Whoopi Goldberg's japes à la Belle Barth, Martin was meant to class the proceedings up a bit. And so he did. He turned Oscar Night into a party he might not mind attending. We give him a B plus...
Even the most sophisticated hearing aids cannot restore perfect hearing. In particularly difficult conditions, many people find assistive listening and alerting devices helpful. In her determination not to be sidelined by her profound hearing loss, New Yorker Ruth Bernstein, 67, has become a gadget guru. The lamps in her living room, office and bedroom are wired to flash when the phone rings or the doorbell buzzes. Her telephone has a receiver with a powerful amplifier. Though theaters are required to lend listening systems to hard-of-hearing customers, Bernstein has purchased her own infrared unit. She's also bought...
...expects the awards themselves to generate much excitement, more depends on the host than ever before, particularly since this year Steve Martin was going to lift the schmaltz-coated fist of Billy Crystal. Martin, who's lately focused on his ar-teest side, writing humor for The New Yorker and plays for the stage, seemed to promise a brainier level of humor. Which, as David Letterman and, more recently, the Grammy's Jon Stewart can attest, you can usually count on to be cruelly rewarded at any L.A. awards show...