Word: yorkerism
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...once overheard boasting to a friend, "I've read War and Peace." So we know Steve Martin is intelligent. Now we know he is intelligent in print. In these comic essays (most from the New Yorker), the voice is often that of the old stand-up Steve: a fellow less cool, less together--and thus funnier--than he thinks he is. Martin takes inspiration from prescription bottles, the Schrodinger's cat paradox and Marlon Brando on Larry King Live. The little gems come at a hefty price--87[cents] each ($1.17 in Canada!)--but are worth it for their expectation...
...Even though I live here most of the year, I consider myself a New Yorker," Seton said...
...Bill Clinton and the Democrats this year, Senator Alfonse D'Amato is Target One--the Republican they most want to knock off. Running for his fourth term, the gruff, perpetually embattled New Yorker, who barely squeaked past a weak Democratic challenger six years ago, is considered one of the G.O.P.'s two most vulnerable Senators (Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina is the other). If the Democrats can beat them, it would help avoid a 60-seat G.O.P. majority and hold down the number of hostile votes in what may become Clinton's impeachment jury. But for the President...
...extremely happy they won," said New Yorker Aaron J. Teich '01. "I didn't initially think they would sweep the World Series, especially against the type of pitching the Padres have in Kevin Brown and others. It was impressive that they were able to deal with that so well...
...know it means that New York is the greatest of all cities, and we are superior in all ways--culturally and athletically," said proud New Yorker Spencer W. Woolf `02. "And we're also smarter and better. It just proves a well-known fact...