Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native New Yorker, Safire dropped out of Syracuse University to become a researcher for Columnist Tex McCrary, joined McCrary's public relations firm, and later struck out on his own. As press agent for a "typical American house" at a Moscow exhibition in 1959, he lured Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev into their now famous "kitchen debate...
...magazine, like those in the New Yorker, are aimed at "the seeker after excellence," and appeal to the reader's worst instincts--snobbery, exclusivity, and delight in sheer expense. It is doubtful that any but the pretentious rich would jump for joy the way a male model does in one ad--over nine pairs of new shoes in a full page spread. And there are the ubiquitous pictures of a Calvin Klein damsel in satiny "at-home" clothes or a Matisse-like line drawing publicizing Yves St. Laurent's stylish scraps...
...than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhattan aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New Yorker...
...subtleties of the way people talked and thought and then to turn them into effective fiction." Because Lardner's books were never best-sellers, the assumption is that he achieved his popularity in the media--for instance, his stories which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker were more successful than such books as "You Know...
Check Clearing A New Yorker, say, buys a suit of clothes in Atlanta and pays with a check drawn on a Manhattan bank. The clothing store deposits the check in an Atlanta bank. The bank bundles the check with other checks drawn on New York-area banks, and sends them by air to its New York correspondent bank, which gives the checks to a bank clearinghouse in Manhattan. The Atlanta bank receives a credit to its correspondent account within...