Word: yorkerism
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...narrow to interest many radio stations, so the little companies must find other ways to promote and sell their wares. Tom Rush, a popular folk singer of the 1960s who started his own Night Light label in 1976, boosts his mail-order sales with ads in The New Yorker. Manhattan's Select Records gave its rap single Roxanne, Roxanne (sales: 300,000) a fast start last November by persuading music-store clerks to blast the song on their sound systems, a promotion ploy that bigger companies had overlooked...
...late 50's it was becoming somewhat of a snobby society type of magazine, of the Vanity Fair, New Yorker "Talk of the Town' variety, "says Christopher B.Cerf...
...traveler dropped in. He said he was from New York but wanted to get away from the city for the holidays. Soon the conversation turned to crime in the city. The man told Stotler he had been mugged five times and talked at length about how little protection New Yorkers had from criminals. The book dealer asked his guest if he had heard about the fugitive "vigilante" who had shot four youths he felt were threatening him on a New York subway. "How did you hear about it?" the visitor asked. "He was interested in it," said Stotler...
With her style and presence, Geraldine Ferraro was by far the liveliest of the four nominees. Intense, good-humored, always listening (a rare trait in a politician), she surprised Americans with her fast-mouthed New Yorker's style. Still, although Ferraro was a first-class campaigner, it was not she but Walter Mondale who made the decision to put her on a national ticket...
...boom generation that is destined to be a cultural force at every stage of its life. The boomers gave the '60s much of its character, and now are doing the same thing in the '80s. In the meantime, of course, they have changed. Says Gordon Rayfield, 34, a New Yorker who is a foreign-affairs analyst for a multinational firm: "In the '60s, we felt like this wasn't our country. It was taken over by bad people. Now we realize that it's our country too." In the '80s, the yuppies are starting to take over. They will become...