Word: yorkerism
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...death is stoking a vigorous debate. "The River Phoenix image was pure," says New Yorker David Kleinhandler, 16. "But I guess he wasn't. He betrayed his image." Outside the Viper Room, one admirer left a painting: a blue stream surrounded by green grass and the message THE ETERNAL RIVER FLOWS...
...born New Yorker, van Leeuwen picked up the languages when he competed in international tournaments in Italy, Portugal, France, Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Turkey. His favorite places have been those in which he was victorious...
McKibben, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, discussed the usefulness of art in raising public awareness of environmental dangers...
Other magazines mentioned by students included the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the Economist, the National Review, Reader's Digest, TV Guide, Harper's, Tennis Magazine, Time and Sports Illustrated...
Perhaps no one can do the job with which Brown has been charged. Perhaps at this cultural moment, there exists no place for the old New Yorker. Perhaps there is no need for the place once occupied by the New Yorker. Its role of imparting gentility, as if by osmosis, to receptive readers who might need it, has been eradicated. Mercifully, into the breach has stepped the triumvirate of The Atlantic, The Spectator and The New York Review of Books. Perhaps, too, Brown's new magazine may at some point become an indispensable part of American literary life...