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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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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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Why Rafael Nadal Is the Most Admirable Person in All of Sports
The hardrooting staff has written often about Rafael Nadal, one of our all-time favorite athletes along with New York Yankees icon Mickey Mantle (our youthful crush) and Mantle’s New York Rangers doppelgänger Rod Gilbert. But Rafa is even more special. … Continue reading
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Tagged Associated Press, Australian Open, Big Three, Christopher Clarey, Daniil Medvedev, ESPN, John McEnroe, Liz Clarke, Matteo Berritini, Mickey Mantle, New York Rangers, New York Times, New York Yankees, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Rod Gilbert, Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Washington Post
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The Illustrated History of Stealth Marketing
Caveat emptor, quia ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit. (“Let a purchaser beware, for he ought not to be ignorant of the nature of the property which he is buying from another party.”) – Oxford Reference Prologue Let’s start … Continue reading
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Massachusetts to Unemployment Recipients: Pay It Backward
Bay State officials have embarked on the Great Covid Clawback of 2022, as Boston Globe columnist Larry Edelman reports today. Mass. seeks to claw back at least $2.7 billion in jobless benefits it says were incorrectly paid The Department of … Continue reading
Two-Way Tie in New York Times ‘Year in Pictures 2021’ Bakeoff
As some of you splendid readers might recall, the end of December is the most photoful time of the year around the Global Worldwide Headquarters, thanks in no small part to the annual Dance of the Shutterbugs in the New … Continue reading
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