Word: yorkerism
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...late October 1992, the week that an issue of the New Yorker containing an article called "Crisis in the Hot Zone" appeared. Toby Brown read the story and, as if infected by a killer movie bug, shouted, "There's a great film here! I'm writing a screenplay on this right...
Brown has no experience in filmmaking; he is a radiologist in Manassas, Virginia. But like a few hundred thousand other readers of that week's New Yorker, he was enthralled by the cinematic possibilities of Richard Preston's chilling true story about scientists battling to contain the Ebola virus, which is as deadly and gruesome as aids, yet has an incubation period of only one week. The story was full of pungent quotes like "There wasn't going to be any safe place in the world," and "Karl, you'd better come quick to the lab. Fred has harvested some...
Filmmakers may try, but no movie will match the real-life horror described in Richard Preston's The Hot Zone (Random House; 302 pages; $23). The book, due in stores later this month, is an expanded version of the New Yorker article that sent Hollywood scrambling...
While the New Yorker has recently been devoting a lot of space to coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder case and female-to-male transsexuals, its readership remains demographically distinct from the National Enquirer's. There is no market in which readership of both is above their national averages...
...hope of delaying such a showdown that Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan had cut a deal with his colleague John Danforth in late May. In return for the Missourian's attempt at compromise, the pro-choice New Yorker signed on to the result: two pro-life amendments to the committee's health-care bill. Like many other senior Democrats, Moynihan hoped to put the issue off for another...