Word: yorkers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University of Texas in Arlington, Ferraro shouted, "If I had a record like Ronald Reagan's, I wouldn't want anybody to hear about it either." At another point she silenced hecklers by poking fun at her own staccato delivery: "You've figured out how to stop this New Yorker from talking too quickly...
Lincoln Caplan, a lawyer by training and frequent contributor to the New Yorker, manages in his book, The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., to do what his friends in the press had little time to do. He has sifted the evidence, researched the precedents, and projected the Hinckley case outside itself and into a more general and philosophical consideration of the issues. All the while, he subtly weaves his argument and day by day New Yorker-style descriptions ("Jo Ann Moore Hinckley ... wore a salmon-pink outfit, with Peter Pan collar and bow, and spoke...
...phone to explain. Baldrige replied, 'I understand perfectly. I'll use the extra time to gather more material.' With perfect politeness, she had accepted my apology and put me at my ease." Reporter-Researcher Val Castronovo interviewed several observers of modern manners, including New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton and Social Critic Fran Lebowitz. She found them grappling with entirely new areas, such as smoking, computer and answering-machine etiquette. Says Castronovo: "It can be argued that the new manners include both lighting your companion's cigarette and snuffing it out in a rage...
Eating and entertaining are becoming more elaborate, in sometimes confused ways. New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton, a sharp-eyed chronicler of manners, recalls being invited to a black-tie dinner with a group of typical yuppies, nervously ambitious professionals in their late 20s-but there were no servants. "Wearing black tie and cooking your own dinner is like make-believe," says Hamilton. "It's like the whole nation is trying to reinvent the 1930s, including '30s manners and mannerisms." Over brandy and cigars the host complained that his "greatest problem was when his father came...
Life with father, as Susan recounts it, was never dull and rarely easy. As the daughter, born in 1943, and her two younger brothers grew up, they had to accustom themselves to dramatic swings in their domestic circumstances. Cheever earned his living by writing short stories for The New Yorker; it was a precarious trade, subject to editorial quirkiness in the matters of rejection or payment: "He was rich sometimes and he was poor sometimes, and both of these conditions were as dependent on his mood as they were on his net worth (which also fluctuated pretty wildly...