Word: yorkerism
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...there was Senator Al D'Amato, who is hotly pursuing Whitewater. According to the New York Times, weekly poker games in D'Amato's office once provided regular occasions for lobbyists to rub elbows with the New Yorker, who now heads the Banking Committee and the steering committee for Bob Dole's presidential campaign. While nobody admitted losing on purpose--a ploy that would have let D'Amato pocket as much as $300 a hand--the Senator's poker buddies represented clients who just happened to have business before the banking panel. D'Amato's office said the games ended...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, THE REAL estate and publishing magnate, was throwing a typically glamorous luncheon at his Fifth Avenue apartment. Gathered at one table were takeover maestro Henry Kravis, billionaire Laurence Tisch, New Yorker editor Tina Brown and her husband Harry Evans, the head of Random House, along with some luminous stars of TV journalism--Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters. It was a pretty predictable guest list for this crowd. But there was someone sitting at the same table who does not make a regular haunt of Fifth Avenue apartments. Uncharacteristically dressed in a suit, his beard...
Offers have been coming in for TV and Cable movies to supplement her fairly steady diet of essays and short plays for magazines such as The New Yorker. Wasserstein also keeps a busy international schedule comprising speaking engagements in London, travel writing opportunities, and even a Japanese musical adaptation of "The Sisters Rosensweig." Most recently Ted Turner produced a film adaptation of "The Heidi Chronicles" for TNT starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Hulce, for which Wasserman wrote the screenplay...
...Word is really a novelty. What makes it so interesting, if not thrilling, to grownups is the sheer volume of its usages, all of them duly authenticated with citations and examples. None of them--Darn it!--can be spelled out here (although some periodicals, notably the New Yorker, erstwhile doyenne of classy writing, print the word nowadays without a blush...
...donors and how it spent its money. Last week the Washington Post reported that in 1986 Gingrich wrote to a prospective Tennessee contributor making plain his intent to use the group as the all-purpose engine behind a Republican takeover of Congress. An article in the New Yorker, meanwhile, stated a GOPAC official said the group either contributed or funneled large chunks of money to 1994 congressional candidates. If the contributions were direct, they far outstrip what the group reported...