Word: yorkerism
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...seen that story in The New Yorker?" queried one of his friends with an evil grin...
...trapped. During the regular College year he read The New Yorker religiously, since it was the established fodder for many cocktail conversations, but during the summer he rarely ever picked it up. It rather bored him, acquiring a dull sameness after the first year's reading...
This apology turned the trick, and Vag's friend told him, with an air of good-natured condescension, not to miss a certain article in the July 6 New Yorker. Vag promised to look it up immediately and with that purpose in mind made his way towards Lamont...
...looked up the New Yorker and found the story. It concerned an improbable couple named Elgin and Caroline, telling how they fell in love and later indulged themselves libidinously in Adams House. The story was subtly and liberally sprinkled with naked bodies, passionate embraces and the like. Vag could not bring himself to finish it, so he looked at the ending and put the magazine down...
...where it has been. Unlike reviewers who guide their readers to new plays, movies and books, they can only reminisce about shows that have disappeared into thin air. By finding a way to remedy this built-in defect of the craft, a young (31) New Yorker named Steven H. Scheuer has built up the most widely syndicated TV feature in the U.S. press. His technique: capsule previews of the day's top viewing based on scripts, rehearsals and screenings, which he covers in Manhattan and Hollywood with a five-man staff and half a dozen stringers...