Word: yorkerism
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...Carol isn't about to give up smoking. Because smoking Gauloises lit by Cricket lighters is part of her life here. It is essential to her existence-as essential as her Espresso coffee pot, her subcription to the New Yorker, her four ring, her Marimekko clothing, and the lonely preppies who offer her weekend trips to the Caribbean...
...country-property the size of Massachusetts. The chemical-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid-kills jungle, contaminates water, lingers poisonously in the earth, and, incidentally, threatens to cause abnormalities that could eclipse the cruelties of Thalidomide. Thomas Whiteside dramatically documents the case of 2,4,5-T in the February 7, New Yorker...
...Indian activism is gradually beating its way into the nation's consciousness?and into its conscience. In ways both salutary and shabby, Indians are becoming fashionable. As The New Yorker's Calvin Trillin recently observed: "It is almost possible to hear the drums in the East Sixties...
Unless he is off making another speech, Commoner leaves the office by 6 p.m. and walks a mile and a half to his Mediterranean-style house, where he has a vodka on the rocks with his wife Gloria, a pretty New Yorker who majored in psychology at Oberlin. Gloria once gave him a bicycle to get home faster, but he prefers to walk because "it's a great time to use your head." It also keeps his 5-ft. 11-in. frame trim. Now that his two grown children have left home, he and his wife actually...
...American? No, a New Yorker, who opens his Times at the obit page, whose dream images date him already, awake among lasers, electric brains, do-it-yourself sex manuals...