Word: yorkerism
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...just about finished reading last month's "women's issue" of the New Yorker. Instead of the signature snub-nosed man adorning its cover, it features a woman in pink peering through a lorgnette. The articles inside range from a scrutiny of Las Vegas hotel workers to a sketch by playwright Wendy Wasserstein about her over-achieving older sister...
...will. I don't want to put my kids in day care from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day, but what's the option for a two-career family? A nanny whom the kids will call "Mama"? I certainly don't want to become like the New Yorker's Sera, who went from extremes at work to extremes with her children...
...wife Lisa coped as best she could. In a New Yorker article by Peter Boyer, she recounts how she'd finally completed the move from Little Rock to Washington just as the travel-office controversy peaked, and Vince greeted her with the news that he thought he should resign. "You can't quit," she told him. "I just got here." Lisa called Foster's White House office frequently, asking his secretary, "How's he doing?" Deborah Gorham always said, "Fine," trying to maintain a professional distance, even though she too thought Foster was suffering from strain...
LAST WINTER DANCE CRITIC Arlene Croce wrote a controversial essay for the New Yorker in which she discussed choreographer Bill T. Jones' production Still/Here without having seen it. She justified her unorthodox move by claiming she didn't have to sit through the piece, a treatise on aids and other terminal illnesses, to know what she was going to get--a lot of easy emotionalism. Certain kinds of art, literature and film, Croce argued, are too manipulative to be judged objectively, too predictable, essentially, to be bothered with...
...lost the support of public opinion," claims Vernon Bogdanor, Oxford's constitutional expert, and indeed, according to a Gallup poll, support for ending it has held steady at 15% for the past five or six years. Republicanism remains, as author Julian Barnes pointed out in the New Yorker, "a spindly growth." The Guardian, a newspaper that endorses it, ran a poll a year ago that showed support for a republic was in the mid-20% range. The monarchy exists by common law and Britain's unwritten constitution, but it could be abolished by an act of Parliament...