Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traveler dropped in. He said he was from New York but wanted to get away from the city for the holidays. Soon the conversation turned to crime in the city. The man told Stotler he had been mugged five times and talked at length about how little protection New Yorkers had from criminals. The book dealer asked his guest if he had heard about the fugitive "vigilante" who had shot four youths he felt were threatening him on a New York subway. "How did you hear about it?" the visitor asked. "He was interested in it," said Stotler...
With her style and presence, Geraldine Ferraro was by far the liveliest of the four nominees. Intense, good-humored, always listening (a rare trait in a politician), she surprised Americans with her fast-mouthed New Yorker's style. Still, although Ferraro was a first-class campaigner, it was not she but Walter Mondale who made the decision to put her on a national ticket...
...boom generation that is destined to be a cultural force at every stage of its life. The boomers gave the '60s much of its character, and now are doing the same thing in the '80s. In the meantime, of course, they have changed. Says Gordon Rayfield, 34, a New Yorker who is a foreign-affairs analyst for a multinational firm: "In the '60s, we felt like this wasn't our country. It was taken over by bad people. Now we realize that it's our country too." In the '80s, the yuppies are starting to take over. They will become...
...several decades, New Yorker Cartoonist William Steig, 78, has devoted himself to diverting children as well as adults. His latest work, CDC? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), tells jokes by using what seem to be isolated letters and digits. At first glance the pages hold pure nonsense: two small boys watch a television set; below them is the legend "R T-M S B-N B-10." But when the letters and number are pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains...
...loneliness of a largely unoccupied dug out; the careworn faces of the managers; the vast summer skies that arch over the diamond, shading imperceptibly to dusk behind the light towers. Baseball, as The New Yorker's Roger Angell notes in his graceful text, is not as fast a game as television coverage makes it seem. With its qualities of silence and waiting, it "invites us really to go slow, for a change, almost to stop, in order to reflect on what is before us and what is to come." So does this clothbound hall of fame...