Word: yorkerism
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...During our interview, I asked Michelle what accounts for the discrepancy between the admiration she inspires among such voters and the kind of blogosphere and talk-radio slurs that prompted the New Yorker, even if in jest, to run its notorious cover cartoon of her standing with her husband in the Oval Office, sporting an Afro and an AK-47. "I've realized that there are two conversations that go on," she said. "There's one at the punditry level - the polls, the writers, the folks in the know, they have one set of conversations - and then there's what...
...Happy Birthday.” Fortunately, Harvard’s celebrated soap opera Ivory Tower also held auditions at Agassiz that night. I inquired about auditioning and was promptly handed a script to look over. The role chosen for me? Sam—the outspoken, snobbish New Yorker. Typecast much? Anyway, I (flawlessly, might I add) recited my lines in front of the Ivory Tower execs and a daunting video camera. Despite my laudable delivery, they did ask for one additional take that would be “more confident.” And confidence is what I brought. Raucous...
...corner of Church Street and Brattle Street—said Harvard’s reputation and the Square’s high-volume traffic were draws, adding that satisfying “highly opinionated” Cambridge residents was a stimulating challenge for him. Hwang is a native New Yorker who had previously owned similar markets in New Haven, Conn. “Harvard approached me expressing that the community had a need for a market-type of place in Harvard Square, ever since Sage Market left over seven years ago,” Hwang said, explaining his move from...
...finally, I'm delighted to announce the debut of our new cartoon page, Drawing Room, which is edited by Matthew Diffee. Diffee is one of the most talented and original cartoonists around, and his work appears frequently in the New Yorker and elsewhere. He'll be curating and contributing to the page, tapping the minds and pens of the best cartoonists in America...
...auteur empyrean for the past couple of decades. There was a four-film stretch of genuine stinkers - Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending and Anything Else - followed by one, Melinda and Melinda, that rose to the level of eh. And since this quintessential New Yorker exiled himself to Europe (where his fondest admirers live, and where the money for his pictures now comes from), he'd made a suave sex-and-murder mystery, Match Point, and two that deserve to have the veil of anonymity drawn over them, so I won't mention their titles...