Word: yorkerism
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...scenes in different apartments, giving the opportunity for some excellent solo performances. Amy (Celia Jaffe), the neurotic bride, sings a hilarious, harried number called. "Getting Married Today," and her high-speed delivery deserved the spontaneous outburst of applause given by the audience. Jaffe's excellent caricature of a New Yorker, a sort of female Woody Allen, is periodically interrupted by a High Anglican chorus led by the almost operatic Erika Zabusky singing "Bless This Bride." Zabusky, as Jenny, plays a square woman chattering uncontrollably to her comically "potted" husband (Lance La Vergne) as she first gets high...
...Chevette showed a 40.2% drop. Ford sold 25.3% more of its big Crown Victorias, and 9.8% fewer of its little Escorts. Ford is extending the life of its Victoria and Grand Marquis models, which were to have been phased out this year, and Chrysler is keeping its big New Yorker and producing large cars 16% faster than it did four months ago. Chairman Lee Iacocca, however, wants the Government to tack an additional 20? onto the federal gas tax to encourage conservation, even though there is more profit in bigger cars. Says Harold Sperlich, president of Chrysler's North...
...last nine holes, and you go after the other guy, usually just one other guy." Watson almost wishes there were no television then. "Isn't the book always better than the movie?" he wonders. "It's always better to read about it, read somebody like [The New Yorker's] Herbert Warren Wind, if you have any imagination...
...model K-cars begat the $8,100 1982 Chrysler LeBaron and Dodge 400, the $12,300 Chrysler LeBaron convertible (see box) and the 1983 Chrysler E Class and Dodge 600, which sell for $9,000 to $12,000. By stretching the K-car, he produced the luxury Chrysler New Yorker ($12,800). In the fall of '83 will come the Dodge Daytona and Chrysler Laser, sleek sports cars also using K-car components, which are receiving raves in the automotive press. They will sell...
...fear that you will be absorbed by this city and its decadent culture. What shall we tell them in Russia? That Trotsky, comrades, has become a New Yorker...