Word: yorkerism
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There is talk of putting Carey on the 1976 national ticket, but he may be too much of a New Yorker to appeal to a wider electorate-his voice a bit too gravelly, his approach a mite too street wise. However, simply by recapturing the nation's second most populous state from the G.O.P., he has become a powerful figure in Democratic national politics...
...that's new about Bogey, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Claude Rains, except maybe that Rains is actually a deus ex machina at the end and that you should read the short story, "Sodom and Gomorrah," by Richard Berczeller in the October 14 issue of the New Yorker about Michael Curtiz, the film's director...
Tourists, too, have been complaining all summer, partly out of a feeling of helplessness in the face of natural disaster and partly out of pique. As a New Yorker put it last week, "I thought I'd see beautiful mountains up there, and all I saw was a bunch of smoke." The Park Service's Bruce Kilgore sighs: "We've got a major problem in explaining our position to the public." Which suggests it may be time to fire Smokey the Bear and hire some new symbolic mascot like Sparky the Firebug...
Tragic Numbers. Brodeur's work, an expansion of a series of articles for The New Yorker, focuses primarily on the dangers of asbestos fibers, which have long been inhaled in unsafe quantities by workers using this insulating and fire-resistant material. Despite years of warnings by independent medical researchers-and the persistent denial of danger by industry-paid health experts-the destructiveness of asbestos has been established beyond doubt. The fibers cling to the linings of the lungs, scar those organs, and induce asbestosis, a progressive and irreversible disease...
...cent rather than the 30 cent scoop you can have additions such as nuts, crushed heath bars and fruit kneaded in for 5 cents apiece. The store's growing popularity and extensive publicity, however, have resulted in nightmarishly long lines every evening. The New Yorker referred to Steve's as "the closest thing to night life in the Cambridge-Somerville area," and New Times listed it as a "bastion of ice-cream perfection." They may be right, but go in the afternoon...