Word: yorkerism
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...then Hemingway couldn't play the cut shot like Waugh did. The original target was 100,000 words. But after a year writing in longhand at his dining-room table, Waugh emerged with a manuscript twice that size. Some would sooner take their chances with a Brett Lee yorker than drop this hardback on their toes. "Some days it just flowed, and I'd peel off three or four hours of writing at a time," says Waugh. One reason there was so much to say, he explains, is that he wasn't properly quizzed in his playing days. "I always...
...scandal over advertising from the newly opened Staples Center. “He took a demoralized newspaper and turned it into a paper that was winning multiple Pulitzer Prizes,” said Jones. But success came at a price. According to an Oct. 10 article in The New Yorker, the relationship between corporate executives in Chicago and Carroll in Los Angeles became increasingly strained until his departure in August of this year. “I imagine that being a Shorenstein fellow is as difficult as you want to make it. I don’t intend to waste...
...Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had "flummoxed" a President who is "not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either." Even more stinging was the interview given by Brent Scowcroft--National Security Adviser to Bush's father during the first Gulf War--to the New Yorker, in which he not only questioned the wisdom of invading Iraq but also criticized the wider Bush doctrine of spreading democracy in the Middle East...
...DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, Belgian-born painter and graphic artist whose work was familiar to millions from poster campaigns and magazine covers for The New Yorker, Esquire and TIME; in Monaco. An unwilling student of architecture, Folon left his hometown of Uccle, near Brussels, for Paris at the age of 21, but first found success in the U.S. with his eye-catching, whimsical pictures of birds, flying men, rainbows and billowy landscapes. Always prolific, Folon's style survived translation onto postage stamps, giant subway murals and, in later years, to animated films and sculpture...
...you’ll hit a button and the devil arrives. Kilmer: I married a girl from England, so I wouldn’t know about that. THC: So, Shane, are you a big Pauline Kael fan? Black: No, no. I had no idea that [renowned, now-deceased New Yorker film critic] Pauline Kael, God bless her, had ever written a book called “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”…Actually it was based on James Bond, who was referred to by the Japanese at one point as Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and that...