Word: yorkerism
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...magazine, like those in the New Yorker, are aimed at "the seeker after excellence," and appeal to the reader's worst instincts--snobbery, exclusivity, and delight in sheer expense. It is doubtful that any but the pretentious rich would jump for joy the way a male model does in one ad--over nine pairs of new shoes in a full page spread. And there are the ubiquitous pictures of a Calvin Klein damsel in satiny "at-home" clothes or a Matisse-like line drawing publicizing Yves St. Laurent's stylish scraps...
...than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhattan aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New Yorker...
...subtleties of the way people talked and thought and then to turn them into effective fiction." Because Lardner's books were never best-sellers, the assumption is that he achieved his popularity in the media--for instance, his stories which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker were more successful than such books as "You Know...
Check Clearing A New Yorker, say, buys a suit of clothes in Atlanta and pays with a check drawn on a Manhattan bank. The clothing store deposits the check in an Atlanta bank. The bank bundles the check with other checks drawn on New York-area banks, and sends them by air to its New York correspondent bank, which gives the checks to a bank clearinghouse in Manhattan. The Atlanta bank receives a credit to its correspondent account within...
...expensive) gospel. As Baltimore Lawyer and TM Teacher David Sykes, 28, explains it, levitation comes in three stages-hopping, or lifting off the ground a foot or two; then floating or hovering; and last, "actual mastery of the sky, flying at will." Adds Rashi Glazer, 27, a New Yorker who has started the new course but is not yet airborne: "Once you have experienced the absolute-even for a few minutes-flying is not a very big deal. I guess I will eventually walk through a wall, but the technique I want most is omniscience and knowledge of other planets...