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Monthly Archives: February 2022
NYT ‘How I Learned to Drive’ Ad a Bit Like Proust’s Madeleine
So yesterday I was working my way through the Sunday New York Times (an activity that the extremely sage Dr. Ads says should trigger a federal subsidy) when I came across this full-page ad in the Arts & Leisure section. … Continue reading
NYT Photographer Tyler Hicks on Track to Win Another Pulitzer
Plug “Tyler Hicks Pulitzer Prize” into the Googletron and here’s what pops up. Hicks in in Ukraine right now doing what he does so amazingly well. Here’s part of what he captured for yesterday’s New York Times. Here at the … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Chivers, Esquire, Mark Warren, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize, Tyler Hicks, Ukraine
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Seriously, When Did ‘Call In Sick’ Turn Into ‘Call Out Sick’?
About ten years ago the hardwording staff proposed a federal government Syn Tax, “a fine for misuse of the English language. At a quarter a pop, that could wipe out the deficit in no time.” Some six years later, we … Continue reading
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Tagged based off of, based on, call in sick, call out sick, Donald Trump, even so, even still, Grammar Girl, Mignon Fogarty, NPR, pre-verbal president, Syn-tax
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Restaurant Employees Fleeing? Bring Back the Automat!
According to multiple news reports, the exodus of restaurant employees from their jobs has reached Biblical proportions, as Business Insider’s Juliana Kaplan and Madison Hoff reported last month. A record-high 1 million restaurant and hotel workers quit in November — and it … Continue reading
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Tagged askART, automat, Business Insider, Carl Reiner, Chock Full O' Nuts, Colin Powell, East 89th Street, Elliott Gould, Horn & Hardart, Howard Schultz, Joe Morgenstern, Juliana Kaplan, Lisa Hurwitz, Longchamps, Madison Hoff, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Marketplace, Mary Elizabeth, Mel Brooks, Nedick's, New York Public Library, New York Public Library Digital Collections, NYPL, Recollection Road, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Schrafft's, Sulamith Sokolsky, The Automat
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