Word: yorkerism
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...about everything from Nintendo to nanotechnology; this week he covers Time Warner's all but completed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting. Before joining TIME, Krantz was a senior editor at Mediaweek and an indefatigable free-lancer (his work appeared in such magazines as New York, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker). He is also that lucky man who is happy in his job. "My field," he says, "is the only new form of creative expression to emerge in my lifetime...
...futurists' most potent tools are terror and exclusivity. "They put their clients in a state of fear and then explain that they hold the secret knowledge that can save them," says Rushkoff, whose own shrewd brand of high-tech utopianism earns the 34-year-old New Yorker six-figure book advances and up to $7,500 an hour strategizing for the likes of the Sony Corp., Telecommunications Inc. and Interval Research...
...exit. Just about everyone sat still for the credits, and even for the closing announcements, as though they didn't care about beating the rush. No doubt Frank Capra would have preferred it if everyone had joined in a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne"--but, for this temporary New Yorker, it was a not unimportant thing, a fleeting improvement in the city's ailing quality of life...
...watch the different attitudes and approaches of guests to the young man standing obediently in the corner. While some have completely ignored me, and others treated me like they might a busboy, Cokie Roberts and Wendy Wasserstein were charming. I had a 15-minute conversation with The New Yorker's baseball writer, Roger Angell '42, much of it even before we began discussing the philosophy classes we'd taken in Emerson Hall. And watching the interview of a political pundit who preceded him on the show, James Cann asked me, as Sonny Corleone himself might have, "What's gonna happen...
Aileen's first husband, Dwight Young, was killed in World War II, leaving her to raise their daughter Yvonne alone. Aileen later acquired three stepchildren when she married again, to Howard Soule, also a diver. She has continued to write, for the New Yorker, Good Housekeeping and, as recently as January, Swim Canada...