Word: yorkerism
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...know of her unlikely history: a West Indian black, raised on Antigua, who--deep breath here--left home at 17 to escape a turbulent relationship with her mother, went to New York, dyed her hair blond in a brief punk phase, fell in with literary types at the New Yorker and became one of its star writers (though she has recently severed her ties with the magazine and publically criticized editor Tina Brown...
...leveraged buyout in 1987. A Harvard M.B.A. and former chief executive at HBO, Biondi had a style that seemed to mesh well with that of the boss: Redstone, the volatile, confrontational owner; Biondi, the even-tempered manager--Redstone's "secret weapon," in the words of a New Yorker profile by Ken Auletta a year...
...speaker was Herman J. Mankiewicz, ornament and outrage of many a dinner table in Bel Air--and also at Hearst's San Simeon, where he was a favorite of Marion Davies, keeping her giggling as they went outside for a swig. A former New Yorker drama critic and a full-time gambler, drinker and wit, Mank was the missing link between Hearst and Welles. Befriending the new kid, he proposed they write a life of a newspaper tycoon...
...recent years: a refusal to use editorial judgment to assess the relative worth of research. The first part of the book describes in separate chapters the important people in Thurber's early life: family, teachers, bosses and, yes, his dogs. Later the same method is used about the New Yorker years. As the cast expands, each previous character is reintroduced. The repetition is remorseless. Further, paragraphs of quotations--from letters, interviews, journals--are laid end to end, and most aren't even from Thurber...
...Time, Clinton said last week that the country has embarked on a historic change: "What's happening now across America essentially closes the door on an era that began with the murder of Kitty Genovese 30 years ago." In that milestone episode of public indifference, Genovese, a young New Yorker, was murdered while dozens of people ignored her screams for help. "I think now we have ended both the isolation of the police from the community and the idea that the community doesn't have a responsibility to work with the police or with its neighbors...