Word: yorkerism
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...turn down the Nobel Peace Prize. That's the sort of one-liner that people who have never even appeared on Star Search have been using around the water cooler for weeks (not to mention the fact that it was the conceit of a humor column in the New Yorker almost a month ago). And what might the punch line be of a joke that begins, "Archaeologists in Los Angeles are excavating a red-light district to see how prostitutes lived at the turn of the century"? You guessed it: "Charlie Sheen...
...ordered tickets to the Richard Bey Show. Resting on each of the 175 seats are a pint of milk (low fat) and a snack-size package of Drake's cakes. This is the Rosie O'Donnell Show, and the gimmick is apt. The actress and comic, part brassy New Yorker, part perky den mother, has come to TV to serve up the daytime talk show as comfort food...
...next big speech, "war gaming" the next five clashes with their opponent, they argue in a kind of rapid-fire code, a political shorthand developed during a 17-year partnership. One of the two strategists happens to be the President of the U.S. The other, a banty, cocksure New Yorker named Dick Morris, is the most influential--and infamous--political consultant on the planet...
Several Dunster House officials have leveled allegations of professional misconduct against a New Yorker reporter whose story has renewed debate about last year's murder-suicide in Dunster House...
Thernstrom's New Yorker story, first released last week, criticizes Harvard for not responding adequately to signals that Sinedu Tadesse '96, perpetrator of the murder-suicide, was overwhelmed by loneliness and depression...