Word: yorkerism
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...full, sardonic force for the opening of the Quayle museum, a sweet, rinky-dink exhibit on the ground floor of an 80- year-old neoclassical building on Warren Street, catty-corner to Dan's old school. The networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker -- the very doyens of the cultural elite that Quayle infamously criticized -- had come to give Danny one last kick. A local woman, who had brought her four-year-old to see the exhibit, fled when she was surrounded by reporters pushily quizzing a real, live person on why she had come...
...astonishing, bewildering years when the Russians were dismantling their steel-clad Eurasian empire, David Remnick was not content to be an eyewitness to history. He waded into it, hip deep, and interviewed hundreds of politicians, generals, intellectuals and workers. Remnick, then a Washington Post correspondent, now at the New Yorker, saw his job as going where the action was, talking with the key figures and checking out the details...
Jury says the New Yorker writer fabricated quotes...
...hours, I went from my home in Brooklyn to the midst of a ship And I said to myself, 'What am I doing here? I am a Harvard student?,'" says Shambroom, who had volunteered to serve with a friend from Dunster after seeing an advertisement in the New Yorker magazine...
Margaret is married to the 40-year old Edward, who reads like a single neurotic New Yorker's idea of the perfect man. Not only is he English, but he is handsome, forbearing, and a Columbia professor, possessed of the ultimate academic credential...an Oxford degree. (Had Schine made him a few years older, he might have known Bill Clinton at Oxford and been able to take advantage of his status as an FOB, instead of languishing in a faculty office at Columbia...