Word: yorkerism
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...athletics, has a horror, in fact, both of sports and drunken manly roughhousing, and his table manners, to put it kindly, are naive. The girls he dates when he dates at all are dogs, his conversation, when he talks at all, is incessantly intellectual and hardly what The New Yorker calls "sophisticated." Besides being childishly ignorant of his own inadequacies and ineptitudes, moreover, he wears thick glasses, has a large nose, and is flagrantly Jewish. None of the 100 percenters on Ivy's back porch were in so repugnant a state as this; even the sorriest of them participated...
...Penthouse trial, Spence used a typical strategy: portraying his client as a simple, small victim of big malign forces. To the six Cheyenne jurors, he characterized Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, 50, as an arrogant, unprincipled New Yorker, "the gentleman sitting over there in the velvet pants." When Guccione suggested that only people with the intelligence of a "flatworm" would think the disputed article was nonfiction, Spence, a University of Wyoming law graduate, began to refer to himself and fellow state residents as mere flatworms. He also listed 15 similarities between Pring and the protagonist of the article, which described...
...involve slouching toward Hollywood with a screenplay. And many really important writers even do short stories, with the exception of John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. It seems the published short story will soon be an abbreviation to be seen only in yellowed numbers of the New Yorker saved from one's youth when things were different...
...knew about the assistant manager, my friend's father, was that he had cable TV and a Praise the Lord Club sticker on the back of his beat-up blue New Yorker. He and his family also owned a Woolworth's tapestry of DaVinci's "The Last Supper." The manager, who wore bell-bottoms over his brown patent-leather shoes, looked just like his picture on the "This is Your Super-Saver Manager" sign above the customer service desk, so everyone knew...
Correspondent Steven Holmes, a native New Yorker, learned that a city slicker faces a language barrier in Benton County, Iowa. Says he: "When a farmer told me it cost him $10,000 to tile, I thought he was talking about his kitchen. He meant field drainage tiles." After several companies declined to discuss a possible reduction in Export-Import Bank funding, Correspondent Patricia Delaney approached J.I. Case, a construction-equipment manufacturer in her native Racine, Wis. "When Case executives tried to refuse, I asked them how they could turn down a request from a home-town girl," says Delaney...