Word: yorkerism
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...Smackover who plays the banjo and then go to the DMZ bar just south (in Little Rock) to hear some of the most alternative of the alternative music in the nation. Interested travelers should show up early on Wednesdays for poetry readings and performance art that only a New Yorker could appreciate...
...TRUTH, however, is that poster gum simply does not work. Yesterday, I went to the Quad for a two-hour tutorial. When I left, my bedroom walls featured a typical smattering of undergraduate decor--pictures of friends, a Van Gogh print, my favorite Far Side and New Yorker cartoons, Martin Luther King, Jr., and David Ben-Gurion matching visionary stares and so on. When I returned, the collection was unceremoniously gathered on my floor...
...music centers as London and Paris, there will also be Mozart festivals in more unexpected places, ranging from Bartlesville, Okla., to Dunedin, New Zealand. When all the cheering finally dies, this will probably have been the largest and loudest celebration of any artist in human history. Says one New Yorker who prefers Puccini: "Where can I hide...
...complain that their wines are victims of snobbism. Critics rave about the Champagne-like sparklers made by Willy Frank, whose father Konstantin was the first to prove that vinifera grapes could be grown in New York's Finger Lakes area. The praise hasn't helped sales much. "The New Yorker has almost a reverse chauvinism against anything made in New York," Frank says. "I have shipped more wine to Tokyo than to New York City." Chaddsford's Eric and Lee Miller have been luckier in persuading local restaurants, including Philadelphia's highly rated Le Bec-Fin, to serve their wines...
...Yorker, I can't profess having cared much that the Cincinnati Reds thrashed the Oakland Athletics last week. So some midwestern team with a dumb name beat a bunch of California yahoos...