Word: yorkerism
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...tailored shirts for women, in 1971, were a success. Nonetheless, his initial attempt at a full line of womenswear in 1972, inspired partly by British riding clothes, was deemed too unsubtly imitative of menswear lines. Critics were startled and yet intrigued. "A phenomenon to bewilder anthropologists," sniffed The New Yorker...
...asked a Parisian or a New Yorker in 1886 what sculpture was, the answer (after a short blank stare) would have been: statues. Statuary, to borrow the mordant phrase of Claes Oldenburg many decades later, was "bulls and greeks and lots of nekkid broads." The sculptor of that day was responsible -- as in the age of film, TV and other ways of mass-circulating the visual icon he is not -- for commemorating the dead, illustrating religious myth or dogma and expressing social ideals. The aim and meaning of the work were rarely in doubt. With statues, good or bad, from...
...gentle traffic manners, tells of the time he lost a muffler on Storrow Drive to a Bostonian aggressively merging onto that thoroughfare. The Bostonian, despite the fact that he shed his own bumper in the clash, never glanced to either side and sped on when the New Yorker pulled over to exchange insurance information...
...also concerned with locale. Flutie's Pier 17,a 15,000-sq.-ft. restaurant that officially opened last week, is his way of "planting a foot in New York City. I've always been known as a Boston athlete, and this is one way I could become a New Yorker...
...want to capture the spirit of Harvard life in the way that The New Yorker captures New York life," Gove said. Like The New Yorker, Claritas will dedicate its main body to essays and will have a short introductory section and a concluding entertainment section, Gove said...