Word: yorkerism
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...Work of Staggering Genius.” Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand called the part-memoir, part-novel the “MTV” version of “The Catcher and the Rye” in an article in The New Yorker...
...franchise down the block, stocked with burritos, stainless steel, and plasma TVs?Bartley’s Burger Cottage has been packing them in since 1960. “Just good burgers, fast service. I guess it’s an institution,” says Joy Shean, a New Yorker who visits Bartley’s whenever she is in Boston. “It’s these little places that make Harvard Harvard.”But since the 1997 closure of the Tasty Sandwich Shop—a 24-hour mecca that stood for 81 years...
...know you have what it takes to be in fashion?' And, boy, was I determined. And I showed him. And I've lived to regret it," she says, and then tops the statement off with a gleeful laugh. Wang is kidding, of course. Her sharp, native--New Yorker wit and sarcasm don't stay hidden under the hem for long. "I say things like this, and people take it and say, 'Vera hates fashion.' And I'm trying to be funny, because if you don't laugh, you're going to keel over...
...book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin proves again that he is one of the sharpest court watchers in America. Based on rare interviews with the Justices, Toobin, the legal correspondent for CNN and The New Yorker, traces the extreme rightward turn that the high court has taken under George W. Bush. Yes, Virginia: the Supreme Court reads the election returns. TIME's publishing reporter, Andrea Sachs, caught up with Toobin just as his book hit the shelves...
...judge Michael Mukasey. The question now is whether they'll have a fight with the right. Both in Mukasey himself, and in the process by which he picked him, Bush has gone against the right, spurning their favored choice, engaging with - and conceding to - Democrats, and naming a New Yorker who is an unknown quantity on many of the social issues about which they care most deeply...