Word: yorkerism
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Almost all of the children were wearing sports jerseys or jackets, most with New York teams on them. Loyal New Yorker that I am, I approached one of the chaperones and inquired where the group was from. "Long Island, NY," came the reply. I piped right up and told her that I was from Manhattan, to which she retorted, "Does anybody still live there?" I smiled. "Not anymore...
...Yorker's Washington luncheon to celebrate its women's issue was more like a midday slumber party--a quite nice one, actually--than a power gathering. We might not have gone so squishy if Hillary Clinton had shown up. As it was, the highest-ranking woman may have been Sally Quinn, Clinton's oft-quoted critic in the New Yorker article on the First Lady. Emcee Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who encouraged women to rise and bear witness to their troubles, broke the spell of sisterhood when she pointedly called on Quinn to explain why women participate in the trashing...
...schmoozing it up with the likes of Bill Gates and John Malone. Diller was now preaching the new religion of interactivity--though, to give credit where credit is due, so was virtually every other sentient being in telecommunications in 1992. Owning a traditional broadcast network, Diller told the New Yorker with a cavalier, would-be mogul's flair, "would be fun. But even as I say it, I bore myself...
Since his first stint at TIME, Trillin's wry political commentary, his accounts of gastronomical journeys in search of the perfect barbecue and his compassionate reportage of small-town America have appeared in the New Yorker, where he is a staff writer, in a syndicated newspaper column and in the Nation, to which he contributes a weekly poem (a genre he took up during the Bush Administration when the phrase "If you knew what John Sununu" came to him in an inspired flash). His 19th book, Messages from My Father, is to be published this spring...
DIED. HAROLD BRODKEY, 65, famously self-absorbed New Yorker writer whose first novel took 27 years to deliver; of AIDS; in New York City. His massive, free-form work was known as "the greatest novel never written." Finally published in 1991 as The Runaway Soul, it received decidedly mixed reviews...