Word: yorkerism
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...this century, fear of crime is the main catalyst for this burgeoning exodus. "People may want to be here," says Richard Anderson, head of New York's Regional Plan Association, "but the things that drive them away are bubbling to the surface." Says Laura Ziman, a native New Yorker who recently fled to upstate New York with her husband and their two toddlers: "I love the city, but it's just becoming unlivable...
...trip. (Those were the days!) Owlish and pudgy, Bridges is right for his role, but pillow-soft McGovern is wrong for hers. And many of Raphael's arch lines -- "Stand by for a Fascist invasion," the reporter murmurs to herself just before sex -- sound like candidates for the New Yorker's old "Sayings We Doubt Ever Got Said" department...
...investigation centered on Steinbrenner's $40,000 payment to Spira, a 31-year-old New Yorker who describes himself as a former gambler and a former employee of the David M. Winfield Foundation. The commissioner wanted to know why Steinbrenner gave the money to Spira...
...Microwave News. In a chapter titled "Watchdog" he describes Slesin's unrelenting coverage of the landmark studies linking low-level electromagnetic fields to the increased incidence of miscarriage, birth defects and various forms of cancer, especially brain tumors and leukemia. In the July 9 issue of the New Yorker, Brodeur returned to the subject with a detailed story about a cancer cluster in Guilford, Conn. Over a period of 20 years, four residents of a street with nine homes on it developed brain tumors, and most of their neighbors suffered recurring headaches. The common denominator: they all lived near...
...protected by the First Amendment if "to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." But in 1973 he conceded that all such vague wording led only to "hopeless confusion." He recently told New Yorker writer Nat Hentoff, "I finally gave up. If you can't define it, you can't prosecute people...